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Danny Elfman
 
Date of birth: 29 May 1953
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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Singer

SongWriter

Biography:
    Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter who was with the rock band Oingo Boingo throughout the 1980s, and has since gone on to become one of the most sought-after composers working in Hollywood today.
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Living in a racially mixed community in the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, California of Los Angeles, California, Danny was known as 'the whitest white kid'. He spent .... (More...)
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" But, really it was finding a kind of a vibe and letting that vibe carry the movie. And did I bring anything new to the mix? I don't know. "

Danny Elfman
" But, when it comes to all the other little instruments, of which there's a lot in the stuff I've done the last couple of years, I do it all myself. "

Danny Elfman
" Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat. "

Danny Elfman
" Even though it is still technically long hours and a lot of work, just because of our history it was really fun. It kind of brought us back to - it was really very much like when I was doing Beetlejuice, I felt the same way. "

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" Everything he thought was one way was about to turn backwards on him. And the scene was shot in this great way that I really liked. It had this uneasiness, this claustrophobia. "

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" Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I'm using. "

Danny Elfman
" I can't get that live and I don't have the time to take the tape, after I've finished recording it, into a little studio somewhere else where I can get a different kind of percussion sound. "

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" I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. "

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" I don't think I've ever not had a main title. And to not have the main title and still have him (10 minutes, 15 minutes into the score) knowing where the melodies are going was hard. "

Danny Elfman
" I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging. "

Danny Elfman
" I had to just plant those in very subtle ways. That's a real important thing for me. By 15 or 30 minutes in if you can't tell where a melody's going once you start hearing it, then you didn't do your job right. Even if it's totally unconscious. "

Danny Elfman
" I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. "

Danny Elfman
" I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer. "

Danny Elfman
" I suppose that's the beauty of writing a concerto or a symphony. And maybe that's what I'll have to do. But, when you're laying in music behind a film, you always have to harness yourself against the images. "

Danny Elfman
" I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. "

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