Toru Takemitsu Quotes

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

  Toru Takemitsu

  Music, Teacher, Self

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• Music is a form of prayer.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Inspirational, Prayer, Form

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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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  Art, Mean, Genius

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• Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Giving, World, Sound

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• I am a gardener of infinite time.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Infinite Time, Infinite, Gardener

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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.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Writing, Love Is, Men

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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.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Paper, Able, Emotion

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• My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Dukes

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• I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Song, Thinking, Type

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