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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Profession : Composer
Birth : January 17, 1952
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Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japan used to be an animistic society before Shinto imperialism was established. But most of us still have an animistic sense.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally out of tune, but I thought it was beautiful. I thought, 'Nature tuned it.'
Ryuichi Sakamoto
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often diminishes the painting's aura. When an aura is lost, it is impossible to get back.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I'm fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won't dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we were in the Sixties and Seventies. All they want to listen to is Japanese pop. They haven't even heard of Radiohead!
Ryuichi Sakamoto
For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and anyone could sing it, change the words, whatever. That is how humans treated music until the late 19th century. Now, with the Internet, we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
I like to write film music that stands on its own.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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