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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

To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Wish Record Perfect Dearest Album

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Hope Before Record Perfect Masterpiece Die Album

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Compose Soon Instrument How Choose

I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Think Virtual Between Genuine Real Difference

I had never really liked the music by Gabriel Faure, but just by chance, listening to some pieces by him, I got very interested. So I listened to almost everything. All the pieces written by him. I was digging deeper and deeper. I'm not sure I still like his music or not, but it's interesting. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Listening Digging Everything Some Never Had Written Almost Almost Everything Like Liked Pieces Him Sure Got Still His Very Listened Just Gabriel Interested Interesting Really Deeper Chance

I want to capture the mood I have now, post-cancer, in my music. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Mood Want Capture Now

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale. Ryuichi Sakamoto

You Ideas Lot Get Them Sketches Stale Use

When I lived in Japan, I only noticed the bad aspects of the country. I didn't really like Japan then, but when I moved overseas, I was able to appreciate the good side more. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Good Country Side Bad Able More Only Like Overseas Moved Japan Then Really Noticed Aspects Lived Appreciate

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Buy Music People Before Everything Easy Record More Industry Because Heard Lot Than Anymore While Declining Much Download

Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Become Past Live Medium Hundred Adjusted Per Something Recorded Throughout Different Cent Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Culture Ambassador Japan Japanese Japanese Culture

For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Me Debussy Door

I love to be anonymous. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Love Anonymous

All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Good Took All My Friends Kids Kindergarten Touch Joined Piano Piano Lessons Had Least Friends After Them Then Lessons Play Start

When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Christmas Music First Bad Bad Acting See Lawrence Merry Fell Wrote Because Cuts Acting Rough Floor Compensate

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Work Day Sometimes Like Hours Used

I'm always looking out for interesting people. Ryuichi Sakamoto

People Looking Out Always Interesting Interesting People

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

Time Water Free Big Our Resources Worried Everything Corporations One Time About Most Big Corporations Were Controlled Getting Anymore Now

The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music You Key Ears Open Concept Surrounding Anywhere Your Here

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

Music Me Waiting People Listening See North North America America Lucky

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

Music Finished Composing After Cream Really

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer. Samuel Barber

Music Book Own Composer About My Own Sonata Write Piano Never Written Abstract Self-Conscious Feel Concerto

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning. Stephen Hough

Silence Learning Out Born Concentration

The daily glitter of skyscrapers competing with the stars is an unnecessary, unforgivable decadence. Stephen Hough

Daily Stars Unnecessary Glitter Decadence Skyscrapers Competing

I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999. Stephen Hough

Thought Living London About Never Until

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