Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

I write music visually.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.

Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.

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

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

Composing music is hard work.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

Usually I write on guitar.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.