“I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.”

Latin for All Occasions (1990)

Source: Arcadia

On playing a raga.
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein

1910s
Source: Overruled (1912)

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)

Address to Grand Jury (1885)
Context: I prefer to be called one of the flock. I am no more than you are, I am simply one of the flock, equal to the rest. If it is any satisfaction to the doctor to know what kind of insanity I have, if they are going to call my pretensions insanity, I say, humbly, through the grace of God I believe I am the prophet of the New World.
I wish you to believe that I am not trying to play insanity, there is in the manner, in the standing of a man, the proof that he is sincere, not playing. You will say, what have you got to say? I have to attend to practical results. Is it practical that you be acknowledged as a prophet? Is it practical to say it. I think if the Half-breeds. have acknowledged me, as a community, to be a prophet. I have reason to believe that it is beginning to become practical. I do not wish for my satisfaction the name of prophet. Generally that title is accompanied with such a burden, that if there is satisfaction for your vanity there is a check to it.