23 Quotes by Paul Horn

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    Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

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    It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.

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    Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.

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    After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

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    Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.

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    I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.

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    I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

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    Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.

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    New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.

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