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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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My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

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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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The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

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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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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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I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

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Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Musician

Born: April 7th, 1920

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