Looking back at my early career, I had a positive view of technology and its potential. It was a happy time, that's… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I have been a long time fan of Jean-Luc Godard. It's my dream to work with him. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it! — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Water is not free anymore. Our resources were free at one time, but now they are not. Everything is getting controlled by… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won't dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano,… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a double feeling. Love and hate. With a talented film director, I cannot resist. They are such charming and intelligent… — 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
