"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."

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Source : "The Energy Is One: An Interview With Hiromi Uehara". Interview with Wayne Zade, www.allaboutjazz.com. October 20, 2003.

Hiromi

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“I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.”
“Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.”
“The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to do anything to revisit Freaks and Geeks that isn't awesome.”
“I'm going to continue to make short films. I love making shorts. I don't have a boss. There's no boss telling me what I can and can't do. I find that it's incredibly creative and challenging to just keep doing that.”
“For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.”

Source : "Behind the Scenes With Paranormal Activity Creator" by Joel Meares, www.wired.com. September 27, 2011.
“It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.”
“The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.”

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