I've always written at night - my working day for years was around 9pm to 2am - though I do keep more… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual. — 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
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 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 Fire Copy Share Image
It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things. — Max Richter 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 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
People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at… — 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
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
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
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
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
'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
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 Communication 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 Amazing 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 Arrival Copy Share Image
A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of… — Max Richter Corporations 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
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
'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I… — Max Richter Attitude 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 Copy Share Image
'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… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
Traditional methods for falling asleep work. Non-taxing, repetitive mental tasks have a lulling effect, and I built those patterns into 'Sleep'. — Max Richter Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more… — Max Richter Chance Copy Share Image
We've all got stories to tell that no one else knows. We've all got this truly unique experience of being. So I… — Max Richter 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 Asleep 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 just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one… — Max Richter People 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 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
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
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
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
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
Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering… — Max Richter Gratitude 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
In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and… — Max Richter Alien Copy Share Image
