Wojciech Kilar - Personal Quotes

Personal Quotes

• Every graduate... at the conservatoire is able to compose a Symphony, and maybe it will even receive a performance. But to write a melody which is sung and played by hundreds of interpreters is something one really has to be born to – ideally in America. A good thing for us (not for him, as one has to admit) that Wladyslaw Szpilman, our Cole Porter, Gershwin, Paul McCartney, was born in Poland....
• Highlander's music is an inexhaustible source of muse. My most popular pieces have been played for more than 30 years; and I owe it to highlander's music (Gorals music).
• I was forced to learn music (laughs). My father was a doctor, mother an actress, so my house was full of artistic atmosphere.
• I turned down the proposition to compose music for Femme Fatale directed by Brian De Palma and I regret it very much, because I wanted to write music for this film.
• I would like to be remembered as a good human being, someone who brought little happiness, hope and reflection into life and into the world and perhaps a bit of faith by those religious pieces. If I were to die seeing that just one person had converted because of me, I would have been satisfied.