You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.
Interpretation
Music can enrich our experiences and make them feel more real.
In this quote, Joe Hisaishi expresses his perspective on the role of music in everyday life. He suggests that while music may seem absent in the natural rhythm of daily experiences, it can be an important artistic element that enhances our perception of reality, particularly in storytelling and film. Hisaishi aims to create a world where music is seamlessly intertwined with reality, making experiences more vivid and emotionally resonant.
In practice
Using this quote during a film festival to highlight the importance of music in cinema.
I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.
I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
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