The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
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.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.
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