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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.
I have a cultural map in my head, where I find similarities between different cultures. For example, domestic Japanese pop music sounds like Arabic music to me - the vocal intonations and vibrato - and, in my mind, Bali is next to New York. Maybe everyone has these geographies in their head. This is the way I've been working.
I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?
I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.
I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It's my dream to work with him.
I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.
I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.
I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.
I know Brazilian music. I have worked with Brazilians many times.
I like to write film music that stands on its own.
I love to be anonymous.
I loved the freedom of improvised music.
I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music.
I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.
I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.
I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.
I want to capture the mood I have now, post-cancer, in my music.
I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.
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.
I was born and grew up in Tokyo, so I didn't know about nature.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
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17 January, 1952
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