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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."
"If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring."
Explore more quotes by Toru Takemitsu
"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."
"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."
"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."
"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."
"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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