Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Music fathoms the sky.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Music is my heart.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.