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Toru Takemitsu

"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."

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"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

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"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

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"A song has to become as much a part of you as a tailored suit."

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"There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything."

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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

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"In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music."

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"Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world."
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"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."
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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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"Music is a form of prayer."
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"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."
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"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."
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