In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
From Ravi Shankar
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.
I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.
I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.
I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.
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