- Born
- Died
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- Haneken
- Kentarô Haneda was born on January 12, 1949 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a composer, known for Virus (1980), G.I. Samurai (1979) and Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984). He died on June 2, 2007 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
- Being an accomplished pianist, he would incorporate a piano score into his works.
- He desired to make classical music easier and more accessible to the public, and to this cause he made appearances on TV and at concerts.
- He studied jazz piano under Yuji Ohno.
- He started taking piano lessons at the age of three years.
- Haneda's mother bought a grand piano when he was in his first year of high school. Haneda used this piano carefully for the rest of his life even after he became famous.
- He taught as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music.
- My long-held beliefs are that the music must be beautiful and we must be happy with it. This is the policy I kept as I created my own world of sound.
- Though an orchestra can sometimes sound like an enormous monster stamping on the ground, the waves can quickly vanish only to live on as a tremor in the heart. Music is love and love is music. The heart knows the weight of love and the body knows the flow of time. And both know the beauty of music.
- Why do people fight? Why can't they understand each other? As many trees are green, the islands have their songs, water is abundant and the sky is blue, why is there no feeling for the eternal chorus of peace?
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