Danny Elfman

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896 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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The only reason I was able to become a composer was that I grew up loving film music.

So I was a fan who then got pulled into the game.

Both those guys like...

Oh, yeah.

So Korngold and Steiner and Tiomkin and Bernard Herrmann was like my god growing up.

He's like the ultimate goth.

I must have been 12 when I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still.

And suddenly it was a revelation that I was hearing the music and I realized there was a name connected to the music.

Well, that's the thing.

All those guys, I mean, they played it high and low.

And I love that.

You know, they would do, like, a big...

Go on with the wind.

And then they would do like two or three little kind of film noir or kind of weird little.

Okay, definitely Bernard Herrmann was the one who.

Oh, yeah.

It was Stravinsky that turned my life around.

Stravinsky.

Yeah.

I was in high school, and I wouldn't be in music had I not moved schools.

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