“I keep my ears open for music for my games and then reach out to musicians. If we click, then we work together.”
Kojima explained that he remains attentive to music that might fit his games, contacts musicians, and if they connect they work together.
“Then, I'll play a soundtrack that matches that, and the writing just happens naturally. It's like I'm not myself almost.”
“What I really wanted to do is something like what they did with Tom and Jerry, with the orchestra watching the performances and timing their music to the actions with symbols and stuff. I want to do that with games so that the music changes in time with what the player is doing.”
“So in a game, I want there to be music that can stand alone and away from the game and be passed down to the next generation. That's the ideal.”
“Having one song in the game is expected, right? So what if we had you make like 100 songs or something? I don't know, but just something no one else is doing.”
“It was almost like planting seeds, and then he would grow the garden.”