Paul Horn
Paul Horn
Paul Hornwas an American jazz flautist, and an early pioneer of new-age music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth17 March 1930
CountryUnited States of America
music spirits
Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
india knew noticed people pilgrimage saw visited wonderful
It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.
pick
Basically, I like to pick up my flute, which is a pretty instrument, and play pretty on it.
bamboo became came chant five flute found gentle music record recovery solo surgery toward weeks
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.
age classical flute mixed played
Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.
beauty perceive romantic
I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
giving jazz learn life tools work
Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
age music wonderful
New Age music does something wonderful to the nervous system.
opened record
The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.
adulation
The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.
moscow public since
We were the first small American jazz group since Sidney Bechet in 1927 to play for the public in Moscow and Leningrad.
experience inner played
Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.
jazz learn
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
funny lesser musician people
It's funny to find there are still people around who think if a musician has schooling, it automatically makes him a lesser jazz player. But you don't learn jazz in school.