The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

Brian Reitzell

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My dad had a candy-apple red sparkle drag boat with a giant hemi engine in it that he raced professionally. The sound of that engine was the most incredible sound ever.

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Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.

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An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

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When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

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If I put the sound of the ocean on, that's going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.

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'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

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My favourite scores, they have very little music. I don't ever want to notice the music coming in. I just want it to suddenly be there and feel something.

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With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.

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One of my first favourite records of all time, as a kid, was 'Tommy' by the Who. Now that wasn't really a soundtrack, but it was.

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I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It's triumphant, and it's emotional, and that's what sports are for.

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To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.

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I only want to make enough money to make more music.

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'Loveless' was a really big record for me. It was what was keeping me alive when I was still touring with Redd Kross.

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I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

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I love futurist music.

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I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.

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The thing about me is that I'm a total music freak.

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I work on everything, whether it's a film or TV show - I wouldn't even consider 'American Gods' a TV show. I don't even know what it is.

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NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

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'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

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