Quotes from Ludovico Einaudi

Doing the Five Tibetan Rites exercises every day - it makes me feel at home wherever I am.

I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

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.

I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!

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.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

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.

I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

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.

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he was coming home with these strange pieces of art that weren't exposed in museums. At the time, it was quite revolutionary, very adventurous.

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

I feel today, with all the possibilities we have in our hands, all the new technology at our disposal, everything is becoming obvious. Nothing is surprising. You can see beautiful things on Instagram, but there is something that doesn't touch you deeply. Everything is normal, while there's nothing that grabs you and turns you upside down.

I like to keep changing because discovery is always interesting.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

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 like music that expresses what I think.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.