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Ryuichi Sakamoto
Japanese
Composer
Born:
Jan 17
,
1952
Been
Me
Music
People
Time
You
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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
Conversation
Simple
Skin
Living
Tree
Sunlight
Able
Delighted
Through
Ray
Feel
Leaves
Listen
Move
Just
Breeze
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
Future
Good
Generation
Natural
Will
Stronger
Build
Become
Profit
Society
Relationships
Our
Resources
Way
Ensure
Neighboring
Future Generations
Hopefully
Good Relationships
Rather
Generations
Countries
Democratic
Xenophobia
Democratic Society
Leave
Falling
Than
Current
Natural Resources
Acting
Avoid
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
Love
Music
Time
Myself
Me
Director
Hate
People
Feeling
Difficult
Other
Charming
Deliver
Talented
Deal
Very
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Love And Hate
Cannot
Double
Hollywood
Then
Producer
Each
Film
Each Time
Satisfy
Resist
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
God
Culture
Mountains
Sympathy
Trees
Our
Everywhere
Kitty
Toys
Robots
Rocks
Japanese
Japanese Culture
Hello
Even
Belief
I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Day
Clouds
Nothing
Luxurious
All Day
Dream
Doing
Just
Want
Watching
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
Music
Me
Mistake
Gift
Mistakes
Unknown
Harmony
Wow
Some
About
Open
Wrong
Like
Know
Making
Sound
Am
Lots
Errors
Oh
While
Note
Notes
Play
Actually
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
Beautiful
Nature
Water
Thought
Those
Out
See
Totally
Recorded
Pianos
Drowned
Course
Tune
Tuned
Near
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
Music
Me
Sense
Older
Spell
Teenager
Broad
System
More
Main
Towards
Led
Escape
Interest
Ethnic
Explore
European
Electronic
Electronic Music
You're changing every day, right? Your curiosities and ambitions change, your ear changes, the music you like changes - and the music you want to make, too.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Day
You
Change
Every Day
Ambition
Every
Too
Changes
Changing
Like
Make
Curiosities
Want
Your
Right
Ear
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
Impossible
Lost
Painting
Adding
Back
Broad
Diminishes
Stroke
Details
Layer
Most
Always
Aura
Get
Artist
Often
Paint
Initial
Fill
It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
People
Speak
Plant
Rare
Accident
Out
Very
After
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Japan
Sentiments
Moment
Nuclear
Streets
I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Face
Own
Seeing
About
My Own
Very
Screen
Shy
Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Russian
Like
Although
Understand
Sound
I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sad
Life
Music
About
Piano
Disappearance
Mortality
Since
Around
Sound
Very
Decaying
Just
Theme
Much
Aware
Symbolic
Meditate
We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Musicians
Films
Books
Photographs
Only
Inspiration
Get
Often
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good
Musicians
Other
Late
Bach
Alive
Inspiration
Beethoven
Yes
Get
Much
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
Music
Myself
Me
Inspire
Closed
Own
Universe
Everything
Intimate
My Own
Doing
Very
Just
Basically
Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an instrument symbolic of modern European music.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Scale
Piano
Since
Instrument
Sound
Question
Modern
Wanted
European
Ever
Tones
Symbolic
Associated
I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Needs
Change
Relevant
Remain
Contemporary
Contemporary Music
Realised
Looking back at my early career, I had a positive view of technology and its potential. It was a happy time, that's for sure.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Positive
Time
Technology
Happy
Looking
Looking Back
Back
Potential
Had
Sure
View
Early
Career
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Everyday
Musical
Objects
Instruments
Sounds
Hear
Wanted
Even
Things
I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Time
Think
About
Always
Vertically
Same
Same Time
For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Myself
Be Happy
Director
Happy
Making
Listener
Just
Producer
Need
Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Knowledge
Films
Everything
Background
Would
Would-Be
Write
Without
Historical
Very
Different
Hard
Many
Each
Film
Each One
Film Music
My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music
Noise
Border
Between
Concept
Making
Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there were a lot of radical, fashionable young people on the streets and in the venues.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
People
Punk
Young
Radical
Wave
London
Exciting
New
Period
Venues
Were
Lot
After
Young People
Transition
Fashionable
Streets
Start
Playing
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