Ludovico Einaudi

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which you hear the music. For instance, listening to a piece of classical music in a film you love often changes your perception of it entirely.

Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

I love to explore melody.

A great melodic line is like a person's soul, and coming up with an original melody, it can be like you are illustrating the soul.

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.

With every musical project, I ended up feeling more enriched by the experience.

It is a boring life if you stick to all the rules.

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.

All my life, my heart has felt closer to rock n' roll.

Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.

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.