Quotes from Hiromi

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage.

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

My music is very emotional. The reason why I want to play music is very emotional. I want to call out my emotions and package them into music.

Art is not that much needed in life, we only need sleep and food. But why do people want art? Because they want to feel emotion! So emotionally moving things is great art to me!

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!