Danny Elfman
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896 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
Danny Elfman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, film music, it was kind of getting easy at a certain point.
And I was getting hired to films where people were expecting, all right, I already know what's expected of me.
And occasionally I could do something where I got to reach out and surprise people, but usually not.
Yeah, they're hiring you because they know what you're going to do.
Exactly.
And the classical music was, because I have no training, that was like,
mega mind you know every time i thought it was killing me and i liked that it's like this is brutally hard i finish it i said i will never do this again and then i get an ask for another commission i go sure it's complete classical music slut i was sitting in berlin with the cellist with the berlin philharmonic i was hoping to get a commission from them but he said we can't we got a new conductor coming in and
I'm not ready for new stuff yet, but I have a piano quartet, and we'd love to offer you a commission for the piano quartet.
And I said, yeah, sure.
And then we're having coffee and talking, and then I go, you know, Newt, I have to ask you, what's a piano quartet?
That doesn't mean four pianos, does it?
And he goes, oh, no, no, no.
And he's laughing.
I don't even know, yeah.
I didn't know.
I just said yes.
I told a slut.
And I am...
Suddenly all these ideas of doing this.
I was a movie music buff.
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