Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

My creativeness stems from my love of music. Music is pure emotion. Music is the infinity sign. Music is self-expression in its purest form - it's how I express my anger, my self-doubt, my love. I think my music is very vulnerable and very expressive, very transparent.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves listening. It involves sensitivity, it involves humility, you know, and then also it's something which is higher than words.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.