We're chronically sleep-deprived as a culture. We're constantly on.

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• Max Richter:

  I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than

• Max Richter:

  We tend to think that when we're awake, we're on, and when we're sleeping our mind is off, but actu

• Max Richter:

  The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know?

• Max Richter:

  I came from a Conservatoire background where the idea of complexity was very much bound up with goo

• Max Richter:

  When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, pri

• Max Richter:

  We're living in our neoliberal, sort of late-stage capitalist culture where human beings are really

• Max Richter:

  When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to

• Max Richter:

  I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, th

• Max Richter:

  'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it

• Max Richter:

  'Spring One' probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it's all Vivaldi. It's