Ramin Djawadi

In 'Westworld,' I really got to explore new areas, stylistically. We had the Indian world, we had Shogun world, so I got…

— Ramin Djawadi

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

— Ramin Djawadi

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

That's what I like: to kind of get up and start working right away in the morning.

— Ramin Djawadi

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

I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing…

— Ramin Djawadi

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different…

— Ramin Djawadi

I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.

— Ramin Djawadi

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

— Ramin Djawadi

What I love is that 'Game of Thrones' is always up for surprises.

— Ramin Djawadi

The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play…

— Ramin Djawadi

When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or…

— Ramin Djawadi

After high school, I moved to the U.S. and studied music in Boston, at the Berklee College of Music.

— Ramin Djawadi

I've worked with Jonah Nolan on several projects. I really love collaborating with him.

— Ramin Djawadi

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

I love performing on my own scores. I do it quite a lot.

— Ramin Djawadi

I literally work every day and weekends.

— Ramin Djawadi

I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and…

— Ramin Djawadi

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

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the…

— Ramin Djawadi

It's always daunting to start from scratch, but it's exactly what I love about my job.

— Ramin Djawadi

At the beginning of each project, I like to create a palette of sound for that particular project.

— Ramin Djawadi

What I like about the piano is that it's a beautiful hybrid instrument in the sense that it can sound very warm…

— Ramin Djawadi

In the case of 'Game Of Thrones,' I've been to set a couple of times, and it's really exciting and inspiring for…

— Ramin Djawadi