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Toru Takemitsu
 
Name:   Toru Takemitsu
 
Nationality:   Japanese
 
Date of Birth:   Oct 8, 1930
 
Date of Death:   Feb 20,  1996
 
Profession:   Composer
 
 
 
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Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
 
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
 
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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.
 
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Music is a form of prayer.
 
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Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
 
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I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
 
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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.
 
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