Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Profession : Composer

Birth : January 17, 1952

I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Hollywood is a double feeling. Love and hate. With a talented film director, I cannot resist. They are such charming and intelligent people. But each time, it is very difficult to deal with other people. I have to satisfy other people. The director or the producer. Not me. I have to satisfy myself. But then I have to deliver my music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I'm always looking out for interesting people.

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Somehow, I see music as a garden which has a lot of different styles: contemporary, classic, ethnic, Japanese, rock & roll, and so on. I can enjoy them all, and there is space for them all.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Water is not free anymore. Our resources were free at one time, but now they are not. Everything is getting controlled by big corporations. I'm most worried about this.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I have a cultural map in my head, where I find similarities between different cultures. For example, domestic Japanese pop music sounds like Arabic music to me - the vocal intonations and vibrato - and, in my mind, Bali is next to New York. Maybe everyone has these geographies in their head. This is the way I've been working.

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I'm lucky that I have people listening to my music, waiting to see me in North America.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

It's all very well to say this or that on Twitter and Facebook, but ultimately, if you are a musician, it is going to carry more weight if you make your statements through your craft.

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In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed as radical.

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Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

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My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.'

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In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea of social sculpture.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Hopefully, we will become a stronger democratic society and avoid falling into xenophobia. Hopefully, we build good relationships with our neighboring countries and, rather than acting for profit for the current generation, acting in a way that will ensure we leave natural resources for future generations.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don't really know about the art world.

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