Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

Japan, Composer
January 17, 1952

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra YMO.

Also known as Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Activist, Actor

Music is like nuclear plants. In a way, it's true! Music is totally artificial. Still using some material from nature, a piano is assembled with wood and iron. Nuclear power uses material from nature, but it's been manipulated by humans, and it produces something unnatural.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Music
- Nature
- Material
It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Moment
- Streets
- Ordinary

I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Know
- Like
- Mistake
Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so stressful, it's like torture.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Film
- End
- Torture
I'm very shy about seeing my own face on the screen.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Face
- Seeing
- Screen
We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Music
- Inspiration
- Books

I easily fall asleep during a movie.

Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Movie
- Asleep
- Easily