Erich Wolfgang Korngold

“Even if I had a whole lifetime to spend in this wonderful country, I would never forget my beloved Vienna.”

“A film score is, in a sense, a substitute for the audience's imagination. It tells them what to feel.”

“Music is music, whether it is for the stage, rostrum or screen.”

“Never have I differentiated between my music for the films and that for the operas and concert halls. In my opinion, music is music, and there is only one kind of music - good music.”

“To us, the Austrian musicians, music is a religion. It is a part of our souls.”

“I am not a film composer. I am a composer who composes for the films.”

“For the cinema, one writes for a hundred-headed monster, an audience that is perpetually changing. For the concert hall, one writes for eternity.”

“The Adventures of Robin Hood was a great joy. I could almost feel myself a collaborator with the author of the story.”

“I feel today that I am an American composer. America is my country.”

“When I came to Hollywood, I felt like a stranger in a strange land. But the work, the music, it was a universal language.”

“My musical credo is: melody, melody, melody!”