23 Quotes by Paul Horn


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    The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

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    We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.

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    Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.

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    It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.

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    It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

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    We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.

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    We clearly need to develop a more systematic approach to services innovation if we are to sustain this vital new sector in the economy. It is critical that we work with universities to create curricula that provide students entering the workforce with skills and training needed for growing our services business.

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