Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

If it's music, I love it.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

I like any music I can feel.

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It's something about the bassline and the drumming. I can't even speak Spanish, but that's probably why I like it so much.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

We are all human, and we are all able to listen to music that we cannot understand. I used to listen to English music like Notorious B.I.G., and I didn't know what he's talking about in all of his tracks, but I'm a fan. It's rhythm and a groove that makes me dance, so I'm convinced that my music can work in the U.S.

My heart is filled with love for my new extended family - the billion-plus people in China who have shown me nothing but unconditional love.

I like music that expresses what I think.

I grew up influenced by different cultures, sounds, feelings, emotions, and I want Premiere Classe to be a representation of that.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.