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Cliff Martinez Biography

Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon, Spring Breakers, Contagion, Solaris, The Foreigner, and Traffic.

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Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Change, Come, Fashion, Pop, Pops, Taste

I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

Believe, Cake, Challenged, Competitive, Hand, Hands

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Bird, Crickets, Love, Musician, Owl, Topanga

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

Done, Kind, Like, Past, Trying

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

Challenges, Chameleon, Definitely, Like

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Center, Diversity, Film, Radio

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.

Able, Age, Asked, Peppers, Sock, Time

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

Films, Jobs, Musical, Strong, Thinking

I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

Ambient, Guy, Know, People, Thinking

The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.

Answers, Men, Sit, Start, Thinking

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

Creative, Depend, Important, Money, Vision

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Country, Couple, Drugs, Fed, Years

I'm not in a position in my career where I turn things down. I'm very easy. So the projects often dictate the direction you will go in. I welcome things that challenge me.

Career, Careers, Challenges, Dictate, Welcome

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Composers, Musical, Musician, Services, Way

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.

Experience, Like, Scripts, Waste, Writing

I think the music business is becoming more difficult. It's really taken a big hit with piracy, so it's a lot more difficult. I mean, it was kind of an impractical career choice when I did it 25 years ago, but nowadays it's truly reckless.

Career, Impractical, Mean, Taken, Thinking, Years

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

Changing, Director, Directors, Mind, Work

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Chronologically, Discipline, Think, Thinking, Tried

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Giving, Know, Listen, People, Speakers, Trying

When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

Alone, Already, Back, Film, Made, Very Happy

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