I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
From Paul Horn
The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.
It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.
We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.
The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.
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