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In Cold Blood

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In Cold Blood is a 1967 film score for the film In Cold Blood, composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The soundtrack album was released on the Colgems label in 1967. Truman Capote lobbied unsuccessfully to have Jones removed from the film. According to Jones, Capote called director Richard Brooks and said "Richard, I don't understand why you've got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.' And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music". Capote later apologized to Jones. The Vinyl Factory said "The opening title track, with its galloping drums and corrosive strings, lets you know you are entering a bleak musical terrain. "Perry's Theme", which begins with a beatific Spanish guitar, mutates into something terrifying, as strings rise and fall ominously. With its harrowing organ blasts, "Murder Scene" is a haunting aural crime photo. At the time, this menacing soundtrack was considered a convention breaker not only for Jones, but also for black composers in Hollywood". Track listing All compositions by Quincy Jones "In Cold Blood" – 2:48 "Clutter Family Theme" – 2:03 "Hangin' Paper" – 2:10 "Down Clutter's Lane" – 2:43 "Seduction" – 2:35 "Perry's Theme" – 3:20 "Lonely Bottles" – 2:34 "No Witnesses" – 2:13 "I'll Have to Kill You" – 2:25 "Nina" (Lyrics by Gil Bernal) – 3:56 "Murder Scene" – 2:02 "The Corner" – 2:52

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“Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.”
— Quoted in The London Review of Books (6 January 2000)
“Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.”
— Miss Amy
“She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part [...]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.”
— Part 3
““They [the Clutters] never hurt me. Like other people. Like people have all my life. Maybe it's just that the Clutters were the ones who had to pay for it.””
— Perry Smith, part 4
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
— From a 1957 interview
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— From "Self-Portrait" (1972)

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Overview

In Cold Blood is a 1967 film score for the film In Cold Blood, composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. The soundtrack album was released on the Colgems label in 1967. Truman Capote lobbied unsuccessfully to have Jones removed from the film. According to Jones, Capote called director Richard Brooks and said "Richard, I don't understand why you've got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.' And Richard Brooks said, 'Fuck you, he's doing the music". Capote later apologized to Jones. The Vinyl Factory said "The opening title track, with its galloping drums and corrosive strings, lets you know you are entering a bleak musical terrain. "Perry's Theme", which begins with a beatific Spanish guitar, mutates into something terrifying, as strings rise and fall ominously. With its harrowing organ blasts, "Murder Scene" is a haunting aural crime photo. At the time, this menacing soundtrack was considered a convention breaker not only for Jones, but also for black composers in Hollywood". Track listing All compositions by Quincy Jones "In Cold Blood" – 2:48 "Clutter Family Theme" – 2:03 "Hangin' Paper" – 2:10 "Down Clutter's Lane" – 2:43 "Seduction" – 2:35 "Perry's Theme" – 3:20 "Lonely Bottles" – 2:34 "No Witnesses" – 2:13 "I'll Have to Kill You" – 2:25 "Nina" (Lyrics by Gil Bernal) – 3:56 "Murder Scene" – 2:02 "The Corner" – 2:52

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.”
— Quoted in The London Review of Books (6 January 2000)
“Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.”
— Miss Amy
“She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part [...]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.”
— Part 3
““They [the Clutters] never hurt me. Like other people. Like people have all my life. Maybe it's just that the Clutters were the ones who had to pay for it.””
— Perry Smith, part 4
“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
— From a 1957 interview
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— From "Self-Portrait" (1972)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.