88 Quotes by Ramin Djawadi

The piano is such a timeless instrument.

There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

'Game of Thrones' offers such a wide range of instruments that I use and stylistically for what I'm doing, but 'Westworld' is the same.

What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.

What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's just very inspiring.

There's so many great themes from the '80s: 'Magnum,' 'Miami Vice.'

I'm one of those artists who, if you'd let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the point where sometimes you just have to let go and make the decision, 'Okay, that's it.'

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.