An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often diminishes the painting's aura. When an aura is lost, it is impossible to get back.
Ryuichi SakamotoRead
I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses joy in the simple pleasures of life.
Ryuichi Sakamoto's quote highlights the beauty of life's simple moments, emphasizing the joy found in everyday experiences such as conversation, sunlight, and the sounds of nature. It encourages us to appreciate and find happiness in these seemingly small yet profound aspects of living.
Themes
HappinessSimple PleasuresNatureAppreciationLife
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about mindfulness and life appreciation.
More from Ryuichi Sakamoto
All quotes →In the old days, people shared music; they didn't care who made it. A song would be owned by a village, and anyone could sing it, change the words, whatever. That is how humans treated music until the late 19th century. Now, with the Internet, we are going back to having tribal attitudes towards music.
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The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.
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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.'
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