Toru Takemitsu quotes
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“Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.”
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“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.”
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“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”
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“Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.”
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“I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.”
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“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.”
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“My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.”
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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
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