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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. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

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