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Music is a form of prayer.

Toru Takemitsu

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Toru Takemitsu
Age: 65 †
Born: 1930
Born: October 8
Died: 1996
Died: February 22
Autodidact
Classical Guitarist
Composer
Film Score Composer
Pedagogue
Writer
City of Tokyo
Takemitsu Toru
Takemitsu Tōru
Toru Takemitsu
Prayer
Inspirational
Form
Music

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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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My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.
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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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