88 Quotes by Ramin Djawadi

I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.

The computer is limited in expression. It can't do what the human player can do. What's dangerous is that you fall for writing for the computer and what sounds good on it instead of writing something that actually sounds good when a player performs it. It's dangerous when you go down that road.

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm but also very cold.

I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

There is an emotional aspect to live players that, no matter how good the samples are, you cannot replicate.

I myself am a huge Radiohead fan.