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I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time.

— Stan Kenton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

— Danny Elfman

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

— Tom Cochrane

The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.

— Tobias Hill

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

— George Crumb

I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.

— Gillian Armstrong

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

— Andy Partridge

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

— Nobuo Uematsu

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

— Tom Jenkinson

As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.

— Jason Moran

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

— Tori Amos