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For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in the air and producing my music. I can't just be the performer; otherwise I can't see the whole view. I need the big view!
Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.
Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.
For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his instrument. So whenever I arrive I am a bit nervous to see what kind of piano is waiting for me.
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
Travelling is very difficult, you have to go to places with different climates and time zones. Travelling like that every single day through the year is definitely not healthy, but that's something I have to sacrifice if I want to play 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!
When you play with someone you can feel the chemistry with, just the first show is already magic.
I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.
Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.
It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.
Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my concert, and they give me the opportunity to share two hours of their lives. I want to do the best I can, for visuals, sound and everything!
Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key!
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!
I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.
I'm always hungry to learn. I always look for something that I can study.
A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.
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.