Ramin Djawadi Quotes

Ramin Djawadi

Profession : Composer

Birth : July 19, 1974

First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I gave up music entirely. And then at 13, I picked up the guitar, and after one and a half years, I started practicing intensively. I began playing in rock bands, and it was there that I discovered that the music I liked to write was always instrumental.

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

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I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as it has strings. That's why I like to experiment with different sounds.

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I literally work every day and weekends.

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When I work on multiple projects, I'm really good at dividing my days, so I start in the morning with a clean slate.

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Many times, the way I write my themes or melodies is that I hear it, and then I sing into my phone or something, or I'll scribble down on a piece of paper.

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For me, always, the big inspiration really comes from talking with my creators, my showrunners and my producers, and seeing what is their vision for their project.

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I'll say, 'I really like Daenerys,' and then I go, 'Wait, but I like the Stark theme, too, and I like the Lannister theme.' I keep jumping around. But I think that's kind of the beauty of 'Game of Thrones,' that there's so many different ones, and they're all kind of different, and they do different things.

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Find your own style, whatever it is. Whatever is inside you, bring that out. I think that's when you have something unique.

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One of the most fun parts about my job is that when the music gets recorded live at the end of the project and real musicians play it, I still get goosebumps every single time.

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The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.

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I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.'

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I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

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I started out on an apprenticeship in Hollywood working as an assistant to Hans Zimmer and another composer Klaus Badelt. That's how I got my foot in the door.

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As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

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In the case of 'Game Of Thrones,' I've been to set a couple of times, and it's really exciting and inspiring for me to see the set and the actors in action, meet them and talk to them, so it definitely helps. If I can go to set, I will.

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I listen to either romantic classical music, Brahms or Beethoven or something like Mozart, or I go all the way contemporary and listen to Metallica or Adele, Radiohead, jazz, whatever it is that is completely opposite.

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I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early age. Then, as a teenager, I picked up the guitar and was really into rock music.

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I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

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I wanted to play in bands and get signed by a record label and tour the world and stuff, but that never really worked out.

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