People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at… — Max Richter End 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… — Max Richter Cinema 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 Accidents 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… — Max Richter Beginning Copy Share Image
When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. — Max Richter Hearing 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 Alive 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… — Max Richter Direction 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… — Max Richter Brave 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… — Max Richter Day Copy Share Image
We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on. — Max Richter Constantly 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… — Max Richter Areas 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… — Max Richter Mirror Copy Share Image
When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of… — Max Richter Connection Copy Share Image
Sleeping and being asleep is one of my favorite activities. Really, what I wanted to do is provide a landscape or a… — Max Richter Landscape Copy Share Image
I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and… — Max Richter Human Copy Share Image
We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not… — Max Richter Actually 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 Good Copy Share Image
Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity… — Max Richter Art Copy Share Image
We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're… — Max Richter Culture Copy Share Image
When I was a student, if you accidentally wrote a triad in a piece of yours, it was just sort of like… — Max Richter Bad 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 About 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 Familiarity Copy Share Image
That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time… — Max Richter Art Copy Share Image
When I got the call about 'Arrival,' I was doubtful because the piece had had a life on cinema already, and we… — Max Richter Boundaries Copy Share Image
It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things. — Max Richter Always Copy Share Image
