Zitat des Tages von Gary Wright:
The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
The more far-out artists, the better.
I always wanted to do something completely different.
I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.
I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
