I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. - Toru Takemitsu
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
- Toru Takemitsu
I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned. - Toru Takemitsu
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 th… - Toru Takemitsu
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 th…
I am a gardener of infinite time. - Toru Takemitsu
I am a gardener of infinite time.
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature. - Toru Takemitsu
My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. - Toru Takemitsu
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. - Toru Takemitsu
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Music is a form of prayer. - Toru Takemitsu
Music is a form of prayer.
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 mus… - Toru Takemitsu
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 mus…
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