Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

I write music every day.

You have to have that organizational principle behind the song.

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

I did take composition lessons when I was in high school, so I wrote piano pieces. I wrote some chamber music. I don't think any of that was particularly interesting.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I love writing music.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

So when I started writing my own stuff, it was with a lot of combinations and time changes and power.

I love to work with producers who are very good with their chord progressions.

Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there.

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.