Stewart Copeland – Composers have the largest skill set

There is no other musician in the world of music that has more of a skill set than the film composer. He has to write music for every instrument, every genre, every time period, every cultural environment. Wild western, space fiction, period drama, ethnic adventure, the film composer has to go into all types of music that a pure artist would never go into. The film composer has to address a director’s very specific emotional message and to be able to create that, exactly that. A film composer needs a lot of skills.