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Toru Takemitsu

"Music is a form of prayer."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is."

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"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."

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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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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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Toru Takemitsu
"Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world."

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Toru Takemitsu
"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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Toru Takemitsu
"Music is a form of prayer."

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Toru Takemitsu
"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."

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Toru Takemitsu
"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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