Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument. … - Ali Akbar Khan

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

Ali Akbar Khan

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument. . . actually, you are singing inside.

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Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind. . . but as a path for realisation and salvation.

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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

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Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

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Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.

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Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

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