Monastic

Cultivated a simplicity that bordered on the monastic.

Ward Bennett
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Monastic

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Not for me.

I don't want anything for me.
Everything is me

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Hugh Newell Jacobsen

The best house is polite to her neighbors and never shouts.


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Ryuichi Sakamoto

That's why I drove upstate. The sound environment is completely different. Even a big city like New York has a unique soundscape. Paris is a big city, but last year in June or something, July, I was walking around in Paris recording sounds. Sounds are very different. 

To me, recording is like fishing. You know, catching fish and then I get back home and start cooking with the fish. And that's exactly how I feel. So, in Paris I got the great fish. It made me really happy. All of a sudden I started hearing some children's voices from a building, like a school. In Japan, schools have a big yard. But in New York or Paris, they don't have a yard. Very tiny. So from the street all of a sudden I heard children singing. I don't know that I have heard children singing from the schools in New York.

You must be very gentle

Some years ago, the other member of YMO, Haruomi Hosono, he's five years older than we are, went to Cuba to look for some musicians, and he saw a very old musician, maybe in his 80s, playing bass in a club or a bar, and his expression about this old musician was, "This old guy plays the bass like cutting tofu." You must be very gentle cutting tofu, otherwise you can damage it, break it. I love that expression, and I want to be like that. I should be like that at 80.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

I want to make something I don't know, and that I've never done or never known.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Composer

Generally, I dislike the process of making music based on a blueprint or purpose or aim. If I was an architect, I would be a bad one, because I don't like having blueprints. Of course, without blueprints, nobody knows what the building will be. But that's exactly what I like to do. I shouldn't know what I'm making, or what it will be. I want to make something I don't know, and that I've never done or never known. Hopefully, for me, it's going to be a surprise, and a new experience.

Maira Kalman

Always a solace. Walking and trees.

Maira Kalman
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art is a technique for life

"I think art is a technique for life," he said. "I do what I do in order to keep living."

Kyohei Sakaguchi

Not so present

We are living our lives in a not so present way

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One home

There is no home, nowhere, for anybody.
You were just dropped here.
You are here. Is this home?
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Dynamite

Dynamite
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Don’t get distracted

Don't get distracted by the fact that I am a brown man or a colored person.

Don't get distracted by people's color
Or race
Or origin


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