Toru Takemitsu Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Music #Teacher #Light
“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

#Writing #Love Is #Men
“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Paper #Able #Emotion
“Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Giving #World #Sound
“I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Song #Thinking #Type
“Music is a form of prayer.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Prayer #Form #Music Is
“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

#Art #Mean #Genius
“My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.”
-- Toru Takemitsu

#Inspirational #Teacher #Dukes

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