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When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it. Max Richter

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It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music. Max Richter

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In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien. Max Richter

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You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual. Max Richter

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People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that. Max Richter

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I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. Meredith Monk

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Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life. Meredith Monk

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me. Meredith Monk

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I think the Wachowskis are two of my favorite people on the planet; they're the best. Michael Giacchino

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I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable. Michael Giacchino

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I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about. Michael Giacchino

My entire life was making movies. Michael Giacchino

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I think my writing has an old-fashioned feel to it for whatever reason. I'm just so influenced by the music that I listened to growing up, a lot of it out of the '60s, so it has a natural tendency to feel like it's from another era. Michael Giacchino

As an audience member, everyone I talk to is like, 'I'm so excited to see 'Super 8.' I'm so excited to see it.' And part of that is because of his drive to make sure that it stays hidden until the last minute. Michael Giacchino

Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people. Michael Giacchino

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I was fortunate enough in my public school that they had a full music program, and no one escaped it. It was treated as a subject that was as important as everything else, and I believe it is. Michael Giacchino

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Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills. Michael Giacchino

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I love percussive instrumentation. Michael Giacchino

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I always feel like my writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything, you know. Michael Giacchino

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