Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
From Paul Horn
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.
Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.
We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.
It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.
I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.
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