Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I really believe in melody.

Music is organized sound.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

Music is the universal language.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Music is your guide.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music is the silence between the notes.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.