Zitat des Tages über Indische Musik / Indian Music:
I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.
In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
You had to be there at the time to understand the wild creative energy of the Fab Four, and this contains forays into Indian music as well as classics such as 'When I'm Sixty-Four.'
The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.
I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.