Takemitsu Toru Quotes

#1. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#2. I am a gardener of infinite time.

Toru Takemitsu

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

Toru Takemitsu

#4. My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

Monty Hall

#8. 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

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

Toru Takemitsu

#10. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

Steven Wright

#11. 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

#12. Writer's block is as a depression in the earth. Like a river that flows into this depression for a time of rest and tranquility, eventually filling to continue its journey from the lower end of its shore line, so too shall your creative juices flow again.

Everett R. Lake

#13. Losers are those who are afraid of losing

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem.

Ramez Naam

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

Toru Takemitsu

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

Toru Takemitsu

#17. Lie, illusion, deception, she said
was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

Cynthia Ozick

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

Toru Takemitsu