Toru Takemitsu Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Toru Takemitsu (random)
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- Type:
- Composer
- Nationality:
- Japanese
- Birth Date / Year:
- October 8, 1930
- Death Date / Year:
- February 20, 1996
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Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. Toru Takemitsu | Refcard PDF ↑
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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. Toru Takemitsu | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Toru Takemitsu | Refcard PDF ↑
