Danny Elfman
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896 appearances
1 recordings
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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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And then finally, okay, yeah,
He's all right.
You know, it took 10, 15 years.
And then as I get well known as a film composer and I step into the classical world, it was the exact same thing all over again.
And it was like, oh, yeah, right.
Famous film composer wants to write classical music.
And when I did my first commission, it was about 14, 15 years ago.
I think for Carnegie Hall for the American Composers Orchestra.
The conductor told me, he says, you know, the New York press, they will hand you your head on a platter.
I can tell you that.
He hadn't even heard a note yet."
And I go, I know.
And I go, I like that.
So, it was like, I expect
resistance on everything right you know i started out with a musical theatrical troop that just got horrible press and we used to take our worst reviews and print them as our ads and then i got in a rock band and the la press would say dance music for kids who can't dance and i loved that that's a t-shirt that's a t-shirt exactly and so okay and then in film music
Oh, my God.
It was huge.
So I finally started to realize that I thrive on that.
And so it's good when I get that.
That negative energy works well for me.
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