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• ‟ Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'

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

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• ‟ Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!

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• ‟ We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

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• ‟ Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

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

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• ‟ My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

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• ‟ When we went to see the first rough cuts of 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence,' I fell to the floor because my acting was so bad. I wrote music to compensate for my bad acting.

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• ‟ I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.

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• ‟ Somehow, I see music as a garden which has a lot of different styles: contemporary, classic, ethnic, Japanese, rock & roll, and so on. I can enjoy them all, and there is space for them all.

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• ‟ Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

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• ‟ I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

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• ‟ Asian music influenced Debussy, who influenced me - it's all a huge circle.

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• ‟ It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.

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• ‟ Ever since I was 18 or 19, I've wanted to question the sound, tones, and scale associated with the piano as an instrument symbolic of modern European music.

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• ‟ I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

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• ‟ The first music I got really into was Bach.

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• ‟ I always think about music horizontally and vertically at the same time.

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• ‟ My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music.

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• ‟ For making music for myself, I just need to be happy. I'm the producer, the director, and the listener.

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• ‟ Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

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• ‟ In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and anyone could sing it, change the words, whatever. That is how humans treated music until the late 19th century. Now, with the Internet, we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music.

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

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