Song Quotes by Max Richter

8 Song quotes by Max Richter

Max Richter shares eight succinct thoughts about songs, providing a quick, intimate sense of his compositional voice.

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It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is…

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All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of…

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'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's odd. It's a…

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I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more…

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A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of…

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If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from…

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'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I…

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There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an…

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'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…

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I was living in a suburban town north of London, dutifully practicing my Mozart sonatas. And the milkman who delivered the milk in the…

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We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

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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…

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'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…

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When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

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Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a musical place…

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I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me,…

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