A lot of things are happening. We've had people who arrived here on one day and on the next day have found a job. A lot of these people are hungry for jobs. |
Especially on trans-Atlantic flights, flights that take a long time, flights that happen at night when the cabin is dark, |
Especially on trans-Atlantic flights, flights that take a long time, flights that happen at night when the cabin is dark. |
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. |
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. |
People really have stepped up to the plate. |
Pran Nath always encouraged me to do my own composition and experiments with Western classical music, along with the pure study of Indian classical music. I think he also felt that something of this depth could also be assimilated in America and would be uniquely our own, since it's been transplanted here. |
The danger is not so much in an assault or robbery at the airport, but an airport is a good place for the thieves to target their victims. |
The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. |
This morning I was practicing raga, and at one point I was singing a long tone and I became very peaceful and still. I thought this is really the highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else, just to be in a state of being to the highest point. |
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. |
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time. |