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1. "These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were." ~ John McLaughlin
2. "Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience" ~ John McLaughlin
3. "Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are." ~ John McLaughlin
4. "I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground." ~ John McLaughlin
5. "You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have." ~ John McLaughlin
6. "The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to." ~ John McLaughlin
7. "I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself." ~ John McLaughlin
8. "In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right." ~ John McLaughlin
9. "Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes." ~ John McLaughlin
10. "The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture." ~ John McLaughlin
11. "At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds." ~ John McLaughlin
12. "I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it." ~ John McLaughlin
13. "I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week." ~ John McLaughlin
14. "I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit." ~ John McLaughlin

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All old stories, my cousin, will bear telling and telling again in different ways. What is required is to keep alive, to polish, the simple clean forms of the tale which must be there - in this case the angry Ocean, the terrible leap of the horse, the fall of Dahud from the crupper, the engulfment etc etc. And yet to add something of yours, of the writer, which makes all these things seem new and first seen, without having been appropriated for private or personal ends."
Author: A.S. Byatt

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