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A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good
Laptop
Musician
Needs
Powerful
Young
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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
After
All My Friends
Friends
Good
Had
Joined
Kids
Kindergarten
Least
Lessons
Piano
Piano Lessons
Play
Start
Them
Then
Took
Touch
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Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Although
Like
Russian
Sound
Understand
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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
Adding
Always
Artist
Aura
Back
Broad
Details
Diminishes
Fill
Get
Impossible
Initial
Layer
Lost
Most
Often
Paint
Painting
Stroke
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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
Appreciate
Art
Defined
Famous
Gallery
Masterpiece
Meant
Often
View
Visit
Work
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As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Choose
Compose
How
Instrument
Soon
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Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Asian
Circle
Huge
Influenced
Me
Music
Who
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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
About
Actually
Am
Errors
Gift
Harmony
I Am
Know
Like
Lots
Making
Me
Mistake
Mistakes
Music
Note
Notes
Oh
Open
Play
Some
Sound
Unknown
While
Wow
Wrong
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Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so stressful, it's like torture.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Because
Each
Each Time
End
Film
Like
Myself
Say
Stressful
Time
Torture
Work
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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
Associated
European
Ever
Instrument
Modern
Music
Piano
Question
Scale
Since
Sound
Symbolic
Tones
Wanted
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For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Be Happy
Director
Happy
Just
Listener
Making
Music
Myself
Need
Producer
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For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Back
Basis
Change
Forth
Happen
Linear
Me
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For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Door
Me
Music
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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
Cannot
Charming
Deal
Deliver
Difficult
Director
Double
Each
Each Time
Feeling
Film
Hate
Hollywood
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Love
Love And Hate
Me
Music
Myself
Other
People
Producer
Resist
Satisfy
Talented
Then
Time
Very
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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
Acting
Avoid
Become
Build
Countries
Current
Democratic
Democratic Society
Ensure
Falling
Future
Future Generations
Generation
Generations
Good
Good Relationships
Hopefully
Leave
Natural
Natural Resources
Neighboring
Our
Profit
Rather
Relationships
Resources
Society
Stronger
Than
Way
Will
Xenophobia
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I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
About
Always
Music
Same
Same Time
Think
Time
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I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we were in the Sixties and Seventies. All they want to listen to is Japanese pop. They haven't even heard of Radiohead!
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
About
Am
Curious
Different
Even
Heard
I Am
Japanese
Japanese People
Listen
Outside
Outside World
People
Pop
Radiohead
Seventies
Sixties
Very
Want
Way
Were
Which
World
Worried
Young
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I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Alive
Bach
Beethoven
Get
Good
Inspiration
Late
Much
Musicians
Other
Yes
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I don't really know about the art world.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
About
Art
Art World
Know
Really
World
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I easily fall asleep during a movie.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
Asleep
Easily
Fall
Movie
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BirthDate
17 January, 1952
Country
Japan
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