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Ludovico Einaudi

Profession : Composer

Birth : November 23, 1955

I was completely anxious when I was young.

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You can put the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the same category, but the types of music, the colors each band evokes, are completely different. It's the same with Mozart and Beethoven - they express two very different aspects of music.

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My music comes from my personal background.

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I went to Mali for the first time in 2000, and I met Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko - two of the greatest kora players of our time.

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I don't like the idea of 'classical crossover,' even if sometimes I see this category given to what I'm doing.

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I am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you've suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.

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On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

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I think what really stays with me is the idea that you can write music about the texture of a wall, and everything is in some way connected.

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I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.

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In a soundtrack, you are in a way always relating with... a combination of different languages. It has to have the same path and same rhythm. Sometimes it's a polyphony of languages that have to work together in some way. With musical projects alone, you can be more free.

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I express myself using my classical skills to write more complex forms of popular music.

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My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

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I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.

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I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic, and folk from Mali and Armenia and Turkey.

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The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

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I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

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Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.

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I love to explore melody.

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After years of doing composition, the risk is always that you might start to repeat and be cliche. Every time, I try find a way to be reborn again as an artist. Its not easy to reinvent yourself every time, as it takes a lot of creative energy, but I am happy to do it.

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I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

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