Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I love doing concert music.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

We do write our own music.

I don't believe in a composer who is only able to compose, who can't play or conduct, can only use a computer. If that trend continues there will be no more symphonies, no more oratorios.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.