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“What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's just very inspiring.”
“I'm usually pretty good at remembering the melodies that I wrote.”
“My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots, and things that can tell a story always interest me the most.”
“I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.”
“I was born and raised in Germany, so I was classically trained. Classical has been deep in me from a totally early age. Then, as a teenager, I picked up the guitar and was really into rock music.”
“I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular project. My goal is always, 'When that theme comes on - even if you're not in the room - you hear it and say, 'Oh my show is starting, I gotta watch.'”
“I used to just scribble things on a piece of paper whenever an idea would - came to mind. Now with cell phones. It definitely has gotten a lot easier because I can just take it out and just - I'll just sing into my phone.”
“After high school, I moved to the U.S. and studied music in Boston, at the Berklee College of Music.”
“When I grew up in the '80s, all of my favorite TV shows always had these great openings, and it always got me excited.”
“'Game of Thrones' is one of the most groundbreaking series on TV. The fact that I get to make music every day is such a privilege, and I'm incredibly grateful to be doing so with an amazing show such as this.”
“There is an emotional aspect to live players that, no matter how good the samples are, you cannot replicate.”
“What I love with 'Game of Thrones' is, every season, I get to continue to develop the existing themes; every season, I also get to write new themes.”
“I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.”
“The music I wrote as a kid already was always instrumental. It was never based on lyrics.”
“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.”
“I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.”
“The piano has a huge dynamic range that almost no other instruments have. It can play very low, and it can play very high.”
“The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.”
“I just always hear music in my head. I thought that was normal. My wife said, 'Ramin, that's not normal.'”
“I literally work every day and weekends.”