The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
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. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
I’m one of those artists who, if you’d let me tweak, would probably keep going and going, so it comes to the point where sometimes you just have to let go and make the decision, ‘Okay, that’s it.’ Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
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. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Ramin Djawadi Read Quote
