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“You don't have to compose a masterpiece every time, but I think the challenge of art is always searching for something different, searching for a new sensitivity, a new perspective, a new vision.”
“I'm a living composer, so I think I just write and compose the music of my time. I'm not saying that I am better than anyone in the past, but I am saying that I may have evolved some emotions that have connected with the people that are living on the planet today with me.”
“As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.”
“People always talk about the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, but I like his melodies. They are very defined and original.”
“I grew up partially with classical music but listened to a lot of rock when I was young - I like acoustic, and folk from Mali and Armenia and Turkey.”
“I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.”
“I went to Mali for the first time in 2000, and I met Toumani Diabate and Ballake Sissoko - two of the greatest kora players of our time.”
“It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.”
“It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.”
“In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It is not written. You learn from your father and add something, because you are living now and telling a story to others. This results in many different interpretations of the same song.”
“I couldn't find a way to write music with numbers and rules and schedules. So I tried to forget the academic idea of music and started to see if it was possible to do creative work, taking in all the influences I wanted to keep.”
“Arriving at a simple piece of music is a very difficult balance because, in being simple, you could easily be banal, so maybe it's more difficult to write a simple piece of music than a 12-tone piece where no one understands exactly what it is about.”
“It is important that we understand the importance of the Arctic, stop the process of destruction, and protect it.”
“The London Olympic Opening Ceremony was excellent. The mixture of old and new, of classic and contemporary was a beautiful reflection of Great Britain. Danny Boyle is a genius.”
“I think what really stays with me is the idea that you can write music about the texture of a wall, and everything is in some way connected.”
“I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.”
“The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.”
“This is the beauty of popular music, that it is based on simple and memorable tunes.”
“I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.”
“The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.”