Ramin Djawadi Quotes

Ramin Djawadi

Profession : Composer

Birth : July 19, 1974

What's so cool about 'Light of the Seven' - and what I love about 'Game of Thrones' - is you never know what's going to happen.

Ramin Djawadi

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

Ramin Djawadi

What I love about film music is the variety. On one movie, you might be asked to do a completely electronic score, and then another might ask you to do orchestral only.

Ramin Djawadi

I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.

Ramin Djawadi

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

Ramin Djawadi

What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.

Ramin Djawadi

I think it's great to see that there is such a connection to film music and the way people react or connect to a character or scene.

Ramin Djawadi

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

Ramin Djawadi

I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.

Ramin Djawadi

I think a melody is a melody. And the way I usually start is I start writing my themes without even writing to picture to just try to find the tone for the movie or the TV show.

Ramin Djawadi

Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.

Ramin Djawadi

We knew we wanted to have our own tone for the show. And then the big instrument that actually we came up with was the cello. It has a big range. It can play really low. It can play high. And it has a dark sound, and 'Game Of Thrones' is obviously - it's a dark show, and the cello became the featured instrument.

Ramin Djawadi

I used to love American Westerns, growing up in Germany.

Ramin Djawadi

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

Ramin Djawadi

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

Ramin Djawadi

I always try to pick projects by: Is this something that excites me? What are the people like to work with? Obviously you spend a lot of time in a room together with them, so I always try to find projects that hopefully have great people attached.

Ramin Djawadi

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

Ramin Djawadi

I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.

Ramin Djawadi

I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular project. My goal is always, 'When that theme comes on - even if you're not in the room - you hear it and say, 'Oh my show is starting, I gotta watch.'

Ramin Djawadi

I myself am a huge Radiohead fan.

Ramin Djawadi