I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
After high school, I moved to the U.S. and studied music in Boston, at the Berklee College of Music. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When I write music, these colors pop out of me. It's hard to describe, but basically when I write music, I paint,… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I would sit at the organ and just start making up things by myself - I was maybe 7 years old, which… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
My dream that I followed and that I'm living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score,… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
What I love about 'Game of Thrones' is that the positioning of the music is so well done, because it's not overdone.… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots,… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.' — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
One of the most fun parts about my job is that when the music gets recorded live at the end of the… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is one of the most groundbreaking series on TV. The fact that I get to make music every day… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
In 'Westworld,' I really got to explore new areas, stylistically. We had the Indian world, we had Shogun world, so I got to play… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
When you know you have great support from the studio, that's a great feeling, and when it's the creative support, that's great. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
That's what I like: to kind of get up and start working right away in the morning. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play very high. — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
