musician you could play all sorts of instruments and do all sorts of things but you gravitated towards the sitar, for example, which you know, if you d really wanted to fit in and just try to use music to assimilate as best you could, you d have gone for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to india when i was eight years old and so, i d fallen in love with india, and i think that was something that and indian classical music, particularly so i was already very into indian classical music as well as jazz and rock and all kinds of forms of classical music as well. do you think music for you as a young person was a, sort of, pathway to expression when so many messages around you as a youngster were that you were other, you are different, you didn t belong, and that you should darn well shut up? and here wa
to fit in and just try to use music to assimilate as best you could, you d have gone for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to india when i was eight years old and so, i d fallen in love with india, and i think that was something that and indian classical music, particularly so i was already very into indian classical music as well as jazz and rock and all kinds of forms of classical music as well. do you think music for you as a young person was a, sort of, pathway to expression when so many messages around you as a youngster were that you were other, you are different, you didn t belong, and that you should darn well shut up? and here was music, which gave you a way to be powerful, rather than powerless? i think that s exactly right. ifound it ifound music was a means of communication
for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to india when i was eight years old and so, i d fallen in love with india, and i think that was something that and indian classical music, particularly so i was already very into indian classical music as well as jazz and rock and all kinds of forms of classical music as well. do you think music for you as a young person was a, sort of, pathway to expression when so many messages around you as a youngster were that you were other, you are different, you didn t belong, and that you should darn well shut up? and here was music, which gave you a way to be powerful, rather than powerless? i think that s exactly right. ifound it ifound music was a means of communication and expression and catharsis that i didn t really feel i had
in and just try to use music to assimilate as best you could, you d have gone for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to india when i was eight years old and so, i d fallen in love with india, and i think that was something that and indian classical music, particularly so i was already very into indian classical music as well as jazz and rock and all kinds of forms of classical music as well. do you think music for you as a young person was a, sort of, pathway to expression when so many messages around you as a youngster were that you were other, you are different, you didn t belong, and that you should darn well shut up? and here was music, which gave you a way to be powerful, rather than powerless? i think that s exactly right. ifound it ifound music was a means of communication
child musician you could play all sorts of instruments and do all sorts of things but you gravitated towards the sitar, for example, which you know, if you d really wanted to fit in and just try to use music to assimilate as best you could, you d have gone for the electric guitar maybe rather than the sitar. well, i already played electric guitar by that age. i mean, that was more when i was a teenager, a young teenager, i got into sitar and tabla. but i had also been to india when i was eight years old and so, i d fallen in love with india, and i think that was something that and indian classical music, particularly so i was already very into indian classical music as well as jazz and rock and all kinds of forms of classical music as well. do you think music for you as a young person was a, sort of, pathway to expression when so many messages around you as a youngster were that you were other, you are different, you didn t belong, and that you should darn well shut up? and h