Quotes About Toru

#1. And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada

Haruki Murakami

#2. I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.

Howard Shore

#3. Toru: What happens when people open their hearts?
Reiko: They get better.

Haruki Murakami

#4. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami

#5. Q: What sound or noise do you love? A: Puppies sighing.

Steven Rowley

#6. I am a gardener of infinite time.

Toru Takemitsu

#7. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#8. Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Laid out. It has the most beautiful

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

Toru Takemitsu

#11. By admitting a new perception of space and giving it an active sense, is it not possible to discover a new unexpected, unexplored world?

Toru Takemitsu

#12. 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

#13. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami

#14. I've come to the realization that I'm always thinking and listening to two things at once.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!

Haruki Murakami

#16. My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

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

Toru Takemitsu

#18. I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

Haruki Murakami

#19. There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

Toru Hashimoto

#20. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.

Anita Diamant

#21. 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

#22. And far and near kokilas hail the day

Toru Dutt

#23. Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Haruki Murakami

#24. Every child is a gifted child,

Toru Kumon

#25. I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.

Toru Iwatani

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

Toru Takemitsu

#27. With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.

Haruki Murakami

#28. Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Toru Takemitsu

#29. Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most.

Toru Kumon

#30. is not a competitive event; it is a cooperative venture. The Spirit distributes his gifts so that believers are compelled to rely on each other in unity, not to contend with each other in selfishness.

Standard Publishing

#31. All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Paul Dickson

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

Toru Takemitsu

#33. It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#34. To maintain discipline in the military, it must have been necessary at that time. For soldiers who risked their lives in circumstances where bullets are flying around like rain and wind, if you want them to get some rest, a comfort women system was necessary. That's clear to anyone.

Toru Hashimoto

#35. 5126We are a mongrel race, our past a history of tangles, our sources obscure, our rowdy upbringing full of greedy, short-sighted empires and cruel, wasteful diasporas.

Iain M. Banks

#36. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.

Toru Iwatani