Takemitsu Composer Quotes & Sayings

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. — Wilhelm, Ostwald

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project. — Michael Hastings

Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters. — Judith Hill

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. — Helen Thomas

I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries. — Howard Shore

On the page, these might look like the stones of a ruin, strewn by time and weather, but I was here. — Sarah Manguso

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms? — Toru Takemitsu

I hate bullshitters; you can never bullshit them. — Karina Halle

When we allow a preconception to rule our behavior, we are actually allowing our past to control our present and future. — Ilchi Lee

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

Life demands risk. — Sunday Adelaja

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that? — Sonam Kapoor

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart. — Thomas L. Dumm

In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.' At the suggestion of his neighbor, author and screenwriter William Goldman, he called the system Gaia after the ancient Greek Earth goddess. — Steven Kotler

You have a great advantage as a writer, Monsieur,' said Poirot. 'You can relieve your feelings by expedient of the printed word. You have the power of the pen over your enemies. — Agatha Christie

It had always fascinated her - what happens when things break down, what are the basic units of life? — Tatjana Soli

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy ... the diary is pretty full. — Evelyn Glennie