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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the deadline hits it because I'd been a film composer for a quarter century at that point.
And I'm wired to like, Oh, I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm done.
And then I look at the date and I go, I better start going.
I only have this many days left.
And, uh,
I'm so wired, my whole nervous system is so wired that way, that with the classical music, it's the same thing.
My first commission, I go to Carnegie Hall, I'm looking at the walls, and there's the real Prokofiev, and there's Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, and I come home, I'm paralyzed.
I couldn't write a note.
I said, I can't hold myself up to these giants.
What am I doing?
And then, of course, oh, I have X number of days left, and they have their first rehearsal already scheduled.
I have to write music.
And it kicks in, and I just started going.
But it was...
It was huge because I didn't know what I was doing.
When I started the violin concerto, I'd never listened to a violin concerto.
So I had to train myself first.
I knew Prokofiev's piano concertos.
For some reason, I knew all the piano concertos.
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