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Toru Takemitsu

"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."

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"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."

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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

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"I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck."

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"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

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"That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other."

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"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."

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"Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television."

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