Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

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

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

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

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

Each time I play a song it seems more real.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

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

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

It doesn't take much for anyone to pick up anything I play - it's quite simple. I go for a good song. And if you hear a good song, you don't dissect it - you just listen, and every bit seems right.