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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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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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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

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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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Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

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Music is a form of prayer.

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Composer

Born: October 8th, 1930

Died: February 20th, 1996

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