My dream that I followed and that I’m living now is that I actually always wanted to go to music college, play in a band, do a world tour, and then eventually get into film music. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or producers and make a plan: this is our main character; we need a theme for this plot. We need a love theme. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
What I love about ‘Game of Thrones’ is that the positioning of the music is so well done, because it’s not overdone. When the music cuts in, it really has something to say. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
What’s amazing about ‘Game of Thrones’ is that it’s set in a fantasy world; it’s a fantasy story. So I always say that with the score, we’re open to do whatever we want. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors – colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes. They come fully formed: the orchestration parts, not just the melodies. Even though they’re not always the right ones to use, the initial idea comes like that. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
That’s what I like: to kind of get up and start working right away in the morning. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
