Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

I am ready to be alone.

Some walks you have to take alone.