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

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

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.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

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.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

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

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.

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.

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

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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