100 Quotes by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Water is not free anymore. Our resources were free at one time, but now they are not. Everything is getting controlled by big corporations. I'm most worried about this.

A young musician needs a powerful laptop and a good analogue synthesiser.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

I'm fascinated by the notion of a perpetual sound: a sound that won't dissipate over time. Essentially, the opposite of a piano, because the notes never fade. I suppose, in literary terms, it would be like a metaphor for eternity.

Piano symbolizes interiority.

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.

When I imagine some music in my mind, almost automatically, I imagine the piano keys.

I am worried that young Japanese people are not very curious about the outside world - which is so different to the way we were in the Sixties and Seventies. All they want to listen to is Japanese pop. They haven't even heard of Radiohead!

I'm always looking out for interesting people.