Ludwig Goransson Quotes

Music is organized sound.

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

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

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.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I want the score to have a really big voice.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

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

I love to explore melody.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

Music is the universal language.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.