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I love to explore melody.
I like music that expresses what I think.
I was completely anxious when I was young.
My music comes from my personal background.
I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.
All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.
I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!
'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.
I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.
The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.
I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.
I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!
I always get excited by the idea of adventure, of doing something different.
With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.
This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.
The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.
I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.
I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.
Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.
As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.
I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.
You can learn and enrich yourself through the process of knowing a different musical culture.
I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.
The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.
I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.
It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living
I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.
It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.
People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.
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.
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.
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.
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.
The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.
Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.
In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.