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Music Quotes by Toru Takemitsu
- Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
- I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about…
- Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
- Music is a form of prayer.
- The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western…
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