J. R. Martinez Quotes
I’m excited to join Power 105.1 in New York and The Beat in Miami and expand my brand even further in the coming months.
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
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.
I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
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.
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.
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.
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.
I'm kind of an antisocial person. I realised when I was playing in bands that I wasn't that comfortable being on-stage, and I preferred to be behind-the-scenes. I like the seclusion of composing.
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
I'm not trying to denounce the visual past. It just seems impossible to me to be able to keep making the same image that I made six years ago.
Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.
These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.
I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!
I have to get the whole sense of the guy for me to be turned on by him, for me to actually like him. I like someone that has motivation and is really dedicated to something.
Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.
I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.
I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.
You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way.
I want to feel secure personally. Have a competitive team out there -- I really want to win; I hate losing -- and, I guess, I want to be treated like a normal person.
If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.
None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
When I go to the plate, I think about putting the ball in play. It's important to get on base and get some walks, but I don't go to the plate thinking of walking.
Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.
