I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.
That's the goal, to survive your gift.
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.
But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
