Toru Takemitsu Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Toru Takemitsu:

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
~Toru Takemitsu


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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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#5bf875b4

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#45a126e5

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
~Toru Takemitsu


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#a8d125ce

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#32c299e7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#87b60af2

Music is a form of prayer.
~Toru Takemitsu


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/toru-takemitsu-quotes/#267ac0a4

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