Takemitsu Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I am a gardener of infinite time.

Toru Takemitsu

#4. Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Atul Gawande

#5. Given the popular widespread misconceptions of Christianity, it is time we returned to the basics. If we don't, thousands of people who believe they are Christians will discover in the day of judgment that they were misled.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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

Toru Takemitsu

#7. My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

#8. 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

#9. 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

#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. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#12. Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#13. So, it was nice knowing me?

E.L. James

#14. Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Toru Takemitsu

#16. There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.

Kin Hubbard

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

Toru Takemitsu

#19. I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

Susan Sarandon

#20. What were you doing talking to that man?" Emma lifted her chin to look him in the eye. "He was talking to me. I was only being polite." "Well, don't be. Do you hear me, Miss Smallwood? Stay away from him.

Julie Klassen

#21. There is no excuse for not trying.

Barack Obama

#22. When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

Shane Claiborne

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

Toru Takemitsu