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

Toru Takemitsu

#3. I am a gardener of infinite time.

Toru Takemitsu

#4. All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

Faith Prince

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

Toru Takemitsu

#6. My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Toru Takemitsu

#7. We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

Robert Lacey

#8. The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Lady Bird Johnson

#9. The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.

Cynthia Ozick

#10. As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

Albert J. Nock

#11. Any girl who says she doesn't keep a list of best kisses ever is lying. She may not have a pen-and-paper list, but she knows in her head who rocked her world and made her more than weak in the knees.

Lauren Blakely

#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. Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Jack Vance

#14. 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

#15. her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both.

Edna O'Brien

#16. Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

#17. 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

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

Toru Takemitsu

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

Toru Takemitsu

#20. Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Christian Louboutin

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

Toru Takemitsu

#22. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

#23. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. The real world, whether we like it or not, is right here, right now. All of this, every day, is important. Everybody matters. Everything we do has an effect on other, directly or indirectly, whether we realize it or not.

Megan McCafferty

#25. Some infinites are longer than other infinites

The Fault In Our Stars John Green.