I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right. Max Richter More Quotes by Max Richter More Quotes From Max Richter 'Sleep' is a project I've been thinking about for many years. It just seems like society has been moving more and more in a direction where we needed it. Our psychological space is being increasingly populated by data. And we expend an enormous amount of energy curating data. Max Richter societyspacesleepthinking There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together. Max Richter musicwhitetogethersleep We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on. Max Richter chronicallyconstantlyculture I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're at a gig, and there's just something amazing going on, it's not really just hearing: it's more of a total body sense, isn't it? You get transported, and all your senses kind of join up. Max Richter amazingthinkyoumusic We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actually, we're not off. There's a lot going on! Max Richter goingthinkawakemind The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something. Max Richter meyoumusiclanguage When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity. Max Richter doinggohumanitysleep We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really like objects of production and consumption. We're on our screens all the time; we're kind of being sold at all the time. Max Richter likelivingtimeculture When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done. Max Richter youcinemadonereflection I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go. Max Richter followmemusicwant 'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'. Max Richter nobodydoingblueattitude When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. Max Richter thingsthinkyoupeople
