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Toru Takemitsu
Japanese
Composer
About the author
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.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Want
#Life
#Love
#Men
#Universe
#Sense
#Music
#Women
#Sensuality
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.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Art
#History
#Music
#Musicians
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Emotions
#Music
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Songs
#Thinking
#Old
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#World
#Sound
#Meaning
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Light
#Self
#Shadow
Music is a form of prayer.
Toru Takemitsu,
Japanese
Composer
#Music
#Prayer