YOSHIKI : Right. Hyde is right. But I wonder why artists should release an album every year or once every 2 years. If I wanted to make money, I would have chosen another job. I love classical music. I want to create music that future generations listen to. I'd like to pour effort into making masterpieces that will survives for over 100 years, not into releasing new albums every year.
I agree with YoshToshBGosh in some ways.
Yoshiki often says he admires Schubert's music. But I don't think Yoshiki would know it. Schubert had been an absolutely opposite type of musician with Yoshiki. I mean, Schubert composed music to make money. He never dreamed of composing everlasting masterpieces. Schubert's dream was just making money and getting married by composing. (Of course, he failed both)
I watched the uncut version of "We Are X" yesterday. Yoshiki says he looks at the line of music from left to right, from top to the bottom. He also says X Japan's music is very calculated every single second. He says such a musical composition is pretty not common as a rock band. He looks very proud when he talks about that.
But, you know, Schubert didn't calculate anything when he wrote music. He just wrote what comes to his mind. I know Schubert has his own working style, and so is Yoshiki. Yoshiki's admiration for Schubert doesn't mean Yoshiki should compose like Schubert did. But I think Yoshiki's self-conscious is excessive. He calls himself "classical musician" and emphasizes he was trained classically, wants to compose such as what Beethoven did, blah blah... I mean Yoshiki's self-consciousness about classical music seems to interfere his creating and recording.
