Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

For me, music is for the soul - no matter whether the song is composed by me or by someone else.

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I love my own music.

I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.

I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me.

I honestly grew up listening to the Stones more. But that doesn't mean I don't love the Beatles.

I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.

Anything that gets to the more emotional and dark side of music, I always enjoy.

Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other people's songs can be an intensely personal experience. I want the songs to be vessels that people fill with their own imagination, the same way that I fill it with my thoughts and feelings.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.