Toru Takemitsu Inspirational Quotes (5)

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

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.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

Music is a form of prayer.

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