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"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
"Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down."
"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."
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."
"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
"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."
"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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