Term Quotes by Yoshi Wada

I don't want to release things too similar to each other. I've been working on selecting something different from my other work.

— Yoshi Wada

I don't think I differentiate between composition and improvisation. Improvisation could be a large part of a composition.

— Yoshi Wada

I wasn't so interested in merchandising through CD or whatever form. I wasn't really so aggressive about promoting my own work. I had my…

— Yoshi Wada

I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of…

— Yoshi Wada

Initially, when I was making the bagpipes and reed instruments, it was different from the other instruments. In terms of sound itself, it may…

— Yoshi Wada

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

— Yoshi Wada

I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I…

— Yoshi Wada

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music…

— Yoshi Wada

I got into one of the Scottish classical styles called piobaireachd, which is a very old music that started around the 1700s or something.…

— Yoshi Wada

At the beginning, I felt sort of reluctant about my music from my past. But in the last couple of years, I felt good…

— Yoshi Wada

I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I…

— Yoshi Wada

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

— Yoshi Wada