100 Quotes by Ryuichi Sakamoto

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

To record the perfect album. That is my dearest wish.

I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.

As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

I think there's a genuine difference between the real and the virtual in music.

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.

I had never really liked the music by Gabriel Faure, but just by chance, listening to some pieces by him, I got very interested. So I listened to almost everything. All the pieces written by him. I was digging deeper and deeper. I'm not sure I still like his music or not, but it's interesting.

For me, Debussy is the door to all 20th-century music.