The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The key concept is to open your ears. Music can be here and there, anywhere surrounding you. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
My interests are moving toward both 'sound and music,' not just 'music.' I have been doing lots of field recordings and also… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I went to see one of those pianos drowned in tsunami water near Fukushima and recorded it. Of course, it was totally… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
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… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
My interests are moving toward both 'sound and music,' not just 'music.' I have been doing lots of field recordings and also collecting lots… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
The piano is the closest instrument to me in my life, so it's just natural to play my pieces on the piano. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
In the 1980s, Josef Beuys planted the seed that activism could be considered as art. I am influenced by the idea of his idea… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share
