I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I can't usually sleep if I'm listening to music. It seems to fire up my mind, and I keep engaging with it… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive,… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When I'm working with pictures, with images and storytelling, it's really about the sentiment and the emotional trajectory of the characters. That's… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I came from a Conservatoire background where the idea of complexity was very much bound up with good music - good music… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural.… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end,… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of sketching on… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
