Joe Hisaishi Quotes

I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Every man is an artist.

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

I usually think in terms of music.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

The score is not a bible, and I am never afraid to dare. The music is behind those dots.

Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.

One summer, when I was elementary-school age, my neighbors and I built guitars and keyboards out of scrap wood, painted them in bright colors, and formed the cover band Lil' 'D' Duran Duran. We didn't make our own noise or even pretend to play our fake instruments.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I'll write songs wherever I am.

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.

I've got so many melodies in my head.