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Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.

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'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry.

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I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

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It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

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What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the ceremony of humbleness.

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I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.

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I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

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I have amassed an enormous amount of songs about every particular condition of humankind - children's songs, marriage songs, death songs, love songs, epic songs, mystical songs, songs of leaving, songs of meeting, songs of wonder. I pretty much have got a song for every occasion.

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I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.

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'Superman' had nothing to do with the superhero or physical power. It's a reference to the book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra,' by Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote about the evolution of consciousness to reach a higher superman state.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Musician

Born: May 10th, 1946

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