Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Ludovico Einaudi

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.

You can put the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same category, but the types of music, the colors each band evokes, are completely different. It's the same with Mozart and Beethoven - they express two very different aspects of music.

I spent one year being very poor at home with my piano, and nobody was calling me, but I had space to think about things on my own and find out exactly what I wanted to do.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

I went to Mali for the first time in 2000, and I met Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko - two of the greatest kora players of our time.

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

Every time I start a new work, I try to be different and to start with a new perspective, so I search for a new idea, something which gives me a new way to access my creativity.

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.

On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.

After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technology at our disposal, everything is becoming obvious. Nothing is surprising. You can see beautiful things on Instagram, but there is something that doesn't touch you deeply. Everything is normal, while there's nothing that grabs you and turns you upside down.

You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.

I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

Often, I could not find the range of emotions in classical music which I found in the The Rolling Stones and Hendrix. Listening to Bach, I found a deep spirituality and felt elevated above the human level. Yet the feeling and emotions attached to popular music speak to us far more personally, and I couldn't leave that behind.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is incredibly rich.

I always get excited by the idea of adventure, of doing something different.

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

I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic, and folk from Mali and Armenia and Turkey.

I was completely anxious when I was young.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

I think what really stays with me is the idea that you can write music about the texture of a wall, and everything is in some way connected.

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

Being invited to score for 'Black Swan' was a real honour. To have my work form part of such an amazing film is something I am very proud of.

In a soundtrack, you are in a way always relating with... a combination of different languages. It has to have the same path and same rhythm. Sometimes it's a polyphony of languages that have to work together in some way. With musical projects alone, you can be more free.

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.

I love to explore melody.

I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.

I like music that expresses what I think.

Arriving at a simple piece of music is a very difficult balance because, in being simple, you could easily be banal, so maybe it's more difficult to write a simple piece of music than a 12-tone piece where no one understands exactly what it is about.

I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

My music comes from my personal background.

Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.

I am compared to other classical musicians, but most of them perform songs from other people, and most of those composers belong to another era.

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.

It's very interesting to see how the music is used, as sometimes you have composed something with a very different intention, and then suddenly you see it connected to something different. For example, it was incredibly strong and beautiful the first time I saw 'This Is England' by Shane Meadows.