Music is a form of prayer.
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Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.Toru Takemitsu
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 musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Toru Takemitsu
My music has no significant rhythmic construction, but when I write music, I am always very concerned about the concept of time.
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
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