Toru Takemitsu's Quotes
Born: 1930-10-08
Profession: Composer
Nation: Japanese
Biography of 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 the mechanism of the universe... about life.
Tags: Life, Love, MusicAlthough I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Tags: Music, Self, TeacherMusic should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
Tags: Able, Human, MusicComposition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Tags: Meaning, Natural, SoundI probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Tags: Old, Songs, ThinkingThe 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 musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Tags: Art, History, Music