Quotes by Japanese/Japan authors (page 2)

"Art expresses man"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

"I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I always begin to compose the melody first"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"However in countries outside of Japan I think game music is still a potential growth market that has not yet developed to the extent that we are seeing in Japan"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just initiated the project. That leads the project into creating an independent label outside of game music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"I very much like dance and dancers"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"I have worked with several dance companies"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"

Issey Miyake, Designer