Ryuichi Sakamoto Quotes

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

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

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• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

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• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

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• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

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• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

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• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

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• To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

  

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• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

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• The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

  

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

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• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

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• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

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• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

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• I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

  

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• Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

  

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• The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. '...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup.'

  

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• People are so passionate... Now that I have discovered Twitter, it's become so fun that people are really into this 'Clexa' thing, and there's such a great response to their relationship.

  

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• There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

  

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• My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

  

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• Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.

  

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• People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.

  

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

  

  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians
  • Especially