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" To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States. "
Ravi Shankar
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Childhood
Always
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" There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. "
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" Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple. "
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" I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going. "
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" One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours. "
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" The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer. "
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" 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. "
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Writing
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" I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people. "
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" I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme. "
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First
" I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity. "
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Problems
Think
" I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill. "
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Electronic
Feel
" In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. "
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Culture
Like
" I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music. "
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Started
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" My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. "
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Almost
" I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised. "
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Someone
Believe
Good
" 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. "
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I Believe
Music
" When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. "
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People
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" I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. "
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Good
New Things
New
" 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. "
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Fairy
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" Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. "
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Changes
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" I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. "
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" In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. "
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I Am
Me
" My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.' "
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" In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. "
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Twice
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