Utada Hikaru Quotes

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Utada Hikaru

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 19, 1983

For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.

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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

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It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

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The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

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