#raga mala

Clip from The Southbank Show, 1997.

“[After a final mixing of a track for Chants of India one] evening [George] came and embraced me with tears in his eyes and simply said, ‘Thank you, Ravi, for this music.’ His emotion meant so much to me, and my eyes filled with tears too.” - Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala(1997)

“I like producing Ravi’s music, because for me it’s educational as well as a joy to work with. It’s actually soothing to your soul, and it helps you to focus or transcend.” - George Harrison, Raga Mala(1997)

“It’s something that I believe in, and I think it’s a benefit if people, during the day, you know, everybody gets stressed out, and this music is particularly inclined to calm you down. It’s an antidote to stress.” - George Harrison, CBS This Morning, 12 June 1997

Ravi Shankar: “He is like a son to me, I mean [laughs].”
George Harrison: “Sometimes I feel like his dad as well, though. [laughs] He can be… Well, you see, with my past, with The Beatles and stuff, we were thrust heavily into the music business, whereas Ravi was, you know, doing his performances in the classical context. And so in some respects, I’ve been able to try to help him or protect him from a vicious world, you know, in terms of contracts or different things like that. In that respect I feel almost like — you know, I have a kind of guardian type of attitude toward him. But most of the time I just feel like friends, and, you know, we just feel like kids really. It’s just our bodies that are old. Inside we’re, like, six years old.” - The Southbank Show, 1997 (x)