Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

I can hear the music all around me.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Music fathoms the sky.

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.

Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.

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

People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

There should be no boundaries in your relationship with sound. Often it's not about the music itself but the context in which you hear the music. For instance, listening to a piece of classical music in a film you love often changes your perception of it entirely.

Western music is alien to my ears.

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.