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Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything. ”
I have a cultural map in my head, where I find similarities between different cultures. For example, domestic Japanese pop music sounds like Arabic music to me - the vocal intonations and vibrato - and, in my mind, Bali is next to New York. Maybe everyone has these geographies in their head. This is the way I've been working. ”
I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency. ”
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. ”
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. ”
I support a robust economy where agriculture and businesses are able to compete in a fair and open global market. ”
Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface. ”
My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning. ”
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement. ”
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action. ”