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"It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking."
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"There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development."
"You must live a life of self-consciousness always."
"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."
"The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds."
"A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life."
"For the development of India. the development of eastern India is essential"
"There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him."
"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."
"Walk and learn from the people that inspire you to do great things."
"I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work."
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"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."
"Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays."
"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time."
"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness."
"It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people."
"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."
"I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him."
"I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India."
"Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns."
"We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being."
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