Sting in Russia. Interview in English

[Music] butI reprogram water goes for a Grammy not a touch which Canada you gave up its WI teen you're not after thirsty when you're not watching so that give me whoa still thank you for coming pleasure to be here sir usually we begin with what we call a box pop which is to say we announced in advance was going to be on the show and the audience sends in questions so there are some questions there's a lot of questions for you and most of them were about the song Russians mm-hmm but we'll talk about that in detail further on these questions are not about Russians they're about other things Marat but a new cool facts what is Russia to you today how do you see Russia I find Russia a very exciting place to come to because for many years it was forbidden land for us and to come to Russia as a part of my European tour is wonderful I love st. Petersburg I love Moscow I'd like to play more in the other cities but it still has an air of mystery and magic to it that I find very exciting yeah Chuck Wolfe he says that he loves your songs that he wasn't able to attend your Moscow concert because the tickets were beyond his means he's she considers herself to be a composer he studies it at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and he asks you was it difficult for you to get to where you are how hard was it actually because he's thinking about himself I certainly didn't have it handed to me on a plate when I was young I always wanted to be a musician from being a young child but could never work out how actually done I practiced every day and then I I left school I became a school teacher I worked in an office I did many many jobs always trying to figure out how to get into the business and then I struggled I went to London with no money in and was starving for a good many years and then I had an opportunity and I never regret those times because it gave my life some perspective if I'd had success immediately I wouldn't have been able to judge how lucky I am right now and so I'm the timing was right I was 28 before I became celebrating 38 which is good I had a job I had a pension I had a family I voted I paid my tax so I was a grown up in it another gentleman asks are you a football fan and if yeah and if you are what's your favorite club my football team is from my hometown of Newcastle Newcastle United which is a very famous team we haven't won anything since 1969 but I say football is about the patience of being a good loser it's not about winning all the time you recently beat Liverpool we did beat Liverpool on Saturday 3-1 yes I was happy Brad Amir Ali Becca did you do things when you were young which today you wish you hadn't done no I have no regrets no no I mean if I have one regret it's that might be making someone sad because of an affair of the heart but you can't really help that you live and learn sad about a good beautifu asks he says he as far as he knows you are for legalizing marijuana and in fact you've said that what's happening now when it's when it is banned and so on actually makes things worse than better why do you think that legalizing narcotics including marijuana were especially a matter one that it's a good thing I think I'd like to rephrase that it's not legalizing its decriminalizing it's right decriminalizing criminal it's a different thing when you make someone a criminal because they've smoked a joint that's not good for society it's not good for that person that's not good for that person's family there are problems associated I'm not I'm not lessening that at all but I think those problems are exacerbated and made worse by the criminalization process we have prisons full people who've only smoke drugs this is wrong so our police force is wasting its time resources money manpower all designed to stop people doing something they clearly do we haven't stopped people taking drugs we need to deal with the real problem so you're saying not are you saying - decriminalizing just marijuana were in general the criminal I think in general and we need to put the the the emphasis on education and you could educate people about what drugs do to you I'm not advocating drugs I'm just saying we need we need a new approach because the old approach is simply not working well leg Petrof what kind of music do you listen to do you have a favorite musician and the sting with into sting no I never listened to sting I listened to music to learn something and so occasionally that's not it's not very relaxing thing for me to listen to music and I'm forced to sort of analyze everything I hear so I won't lie on the sofa and music wash over me I will sort of sit and think oh well that's that's a D flat minor chord and a flattened fifth there so it's working it's work IRA not by Yaakov he's asking when you write music is it how do you think of commercial of a commercial hit for instance symphony cities which is based on classical music is really aimed at a smaller audience isn't it so that's really not looking for commercial success when I was younger and writing music everything I did seemed to be commercial I seem to have my finger on the pulse so I it was easy as I get older I feel I don't have my finger on that commercial pulse but at the same time I think the music is it means more to my soul I make music because it's its own reward I'm not actually thinking about commercial success it's nice to have a hit record it's nice to get royalties and all of that stuff but music feeds my soul and it does so increasingly oh hi daughter asks you if if you could offer just one song of all the things you've written that would be your would say here is who sting is what's wrong with that it's a little bit like asking which of my six children I prefer you know I don't prefer one of my children of the other and frankly there's only one song it's only one it's all my voice my attempt to try and make sense of my world so I can't really separate them okay I don't want to be a oak we'll get you off do you think the Cold War is over I certainly hope so I mean we may we'll talk about that later when we talk about Russians there's still some vestiges of mistrust you know that which need to be dealt with but I hope it's over it was not a very helpful time for any of us in our asks are you are you do be that for men work comes first and family comes second whoo that's a difficult question I think men are in a bit of a crisis at the moment in that work used to define us who we were we build ships we've done in the coal mines you know we made things now we don't who are we what are we doing you know in a way that crisis is an opportunity it means we can get to know our families more we can become family men so I think we're in this point of balance right now about who exactly we are as men by sealing across earth when did yoga become part of your life why okay I was quite old when I took it I was almost 40 and I met a yogi and I would always been very fit I used to run a lot I was an athlete when I was a teenager and this man showed me these yoga moves and I thought that would look pretty easy so I tried and I was humiliated by just my lack of flexibility so I asked him to come to my house and he lived with me for a year oh yeah and he taught me this has been 20 over 20 years I've done yoga you know they say when when the pupil is ready the teacher will appear which is what happened to me and I feel it's given me an extra decade of my career because I have the flexibility of a young man Demetri champion Russia in Russia we love to listen to foreign musicians singers and so on and so forth we know them we wait for them to come what about Russian stars are they known at all abroad do you know any could you give any name no no not really I mean my knowledge of Russian music is you know mizuki but your craft for coffee I feel right but you don't know any of your other parts I really don't and I apologize for that it in the Duke River do you think your fate we've made totally of your hands that you're responsible for everything that happened to you or are there other elements that you could name luck maybe look look oh I'm very fortunate in in many ways and the the sound of my voice I always say that the the luckiest thing is when you sing you're instantly recognizable it's like a fingerprint it's like a like a unique signature so when your voice comes in the video throw that's you may not like it yeah you know who it is so I'm fortunate in that sense I have one of these faces that people seem to recognize me when I'm covered from here to here this morning and in Red Square I was covered peoples interesting I know what they're recognizing but they do so Evon question is there a person who influenced you most in your life could you name one such person my mother my mother was a piano player and no but my earliest memories of her playing playing the piano while I sat at her feet and I watched the petals go up and down young lady if she writes her name is just Mary if you could choose one city to live in and one nationality if you will what would that be well at the moment I live in New York City my youngest child is at school there if I had to choose a city to live in exclusively it would be New York City but as a citizenship I would have to say I'm still patriotic I'm British I'm an Englishman everyone knows you with sting although people who know a little bit more about that know that it's a nickname do you think a nickname has an effect on who you become once you've got it it's very useful for a number of reasons one it's very short and cryptic name for signing you know if I was called Engelbert Humperdinck no it would be another thing but it also gives you a mask almost to to wear when you perform it while you're in public it's not quite you it's there are parts of you part of the manufactured pass that are genuine but it's it protects you to a certain extent Demitri see that Anka he asks if there a song that you wish you would have written there isn't time in this program for me to mention all the songs that I'm envious that have been written many many many songs you know I became a songwriter because of the Beatles really because that there were you know a decade older than me but they came from the same background the same education the same kind of town and they conquered the world with their songs and so it gave permission to a whole generation of other Englishmen to try and do the same this is what we do in the final question from our viewership you've gained ego very Olaf he says that you and your your colleagues in show business come to Russia for what reasons so look at an exotic country to make a lot of money what really brings you here there the desire to come to a foreign country especially Russia which was completely forbidden from for many many years is very compelling yes we get paid to come here but you know I always say it's I have a job that I would do for nothing if I was asked of course I play for nothing the response here of the Russians is very very positive because they don't take it for granted you know it's it's something that actually meant it meant freedom it meant liberation it still does and so that feeling is very strong all right that's the end of Vox Pop and I am telling our viewership that we're going to off to some advertising but don't go away we'll be right back [Music] all right um seven years or so ago your autobiography came out called broken music I read it and it's it's not a happy book there's a lot of sad stuff in it hmm and I also heard that supposedly you you were in a kind of a depression for two years after you'd finished it hmm why it brought up brought up a lot of memories and feelings and emotions that I'd suppressed for many years and writing them down obviously had to relive those those times it was very good therapy but it certainly wasn't a pleasant therapy it was it was it was difficult and tough I'm glad I've done it now seven years have passed and I feel like I was enriched by that experience I thought I explained myself very well I wasn't interested in writing about Fame and so the book stops as I become famous one because no one knew my story there were lots of books are written about me from glean from the tabloids and you know just hearsay you know I would read them and think well that's not me and I need to tell the world who I am and who I am is a working-class kid that came from Newcastle and uh you know worked hard to get where he was going that's the story I wanted to tell but it wasn't a happy thought my childhood wasn't happy that's absolutely obvious if someone said if you don't know spin that means you haven't been on this planet for the past 40 years have you ever met anyone who actually doesn't know you I like to do things like go on walking pilgrimage the pilgrimage through India I've been there a few times and Himalayas I walked to the source of the Ganges and the source of the Yemen are with pilgrims some of them are dying they're being carried on wooden poles and they haven't a clue who I am because I'm sleeping by the roadside or I'm walking with them and that's a very relaxing and you've done that recently done that quite a bit yeah so you not being known at times is a benefit it is but you know I I do tend to demand my citizens rights in whatever city I go to I don't have an entourage I don't have bodyguards I like to walk through a city and I think people when they see you or the recognize you respond to that very well if you have a posse of people around you and people have walkie-talkies and then they tend to get hysterical if you're just walking on your own they'll say hi when they smile or there they'll be pleased to see you so they are my citizens rights and I'm pretty militant about demanding them let's work back a little bit you went to a Catholic school they did and you were not the most brilliant student where you were good stew I was a good student I worked hard but it wasn't the most brilliant education today I don't know whether it's true today but they had corporal punishment back then did they beat you I had 42 whacks of the cane in one year and that's a little bit like being cut by a knife it's a very thin and the priests used to hit us and you get six at a time after three you can bear it the fourth is agony the fifth you want to kill whoever is doing it to you or the sixth you lose all respect for authority so it was very brutal kind of medieval and I don't thank people for it you think that affected you in any way besides the physical pain absolutely it made me question the whole the whole idea of you know the God of mercy at least they're vicars on earth I found a bit cruel I still get because that still exists no it's against the law Thanks it should yes you went in a lot before athletics sports right and you were quite good at it is 100 meters running 200 meters and a triple jump and you participated in in national meets yeah I came second in the in the English Nationals and I'd never been beaten before you know but in sprinting you're either the best there's no strategy there's no real training you you're built to be the fastest so they're not so I chose to be a musician after that well you say that you either you're the best of you now or you're nobody basically is it important for you to be the best I mean that's that has that played a role and yes your career I'm very competitive I love I like to compete at the same time you know in music there's that it's not like sports there's no definitive winner and anything but I'm competitive I like that touch struggle but I'm also now I don't mind losing so you're not a bad loser I'm not a bad loser at all tell me this you taught English as you just as you said earlier and when someone asks you well why didn't you keep on teaching you kind of joked saying that in England teachers are paid less than janitors or whatever let's just imagine the teachers were very highly paid people just for the fun of them would you still be a teacher if it hadn't been you know if you'd be paying it'll be paid a littles of money would you still be Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner somewhere in the realm of the hypothetical here would I would I would I give up my current job to be a tease no no no back then had you been well-paid would you still have looked to be a musician yes of course I would music was my vocation at the same time I still think teachers should be paid more I think the best people in society need to do one of the most important jobs in society and we need to attract those best people by paying them you once said that music isn't born in the head of a musician but it it comes from somewhere yeah and does bad music also cover must do we don't know from where do we I you know I've been a musician all my life and it's still a wonderful all-absorbing mystery to me what exactly it is I think the perfect music is probably silence and that as musicians all we really do is create a wonderful frame around that perfection which is silence you know the beginning of Beethoven fifth symphony begins with a one beat of silence it doesn't start on one one of my greatest teachers was Miles Davis everythings he didn't play were as eloquent as the things he did play hmm leaving space not long ago one of your famous songs fragile was played by and some by the Moscow choir which is led by a wonderful musician himself meaning bloody man meaning and he said that he really liked the song not only for its melody but because you can hear how the singer is thinking out loud in the song and to him that was very important what I want to ask you is if you look at the music and the lyrics what needs you to a song you get a tune going in your head where is it something you've heard said or seen done and that triggers it there are no rules about how you write songs there are many ways and that approaching it you can start with lyrics what I favored method I favored in the past decade or so is to actually write the music first my theory being it if you structure music correctly it already has a narrative it's an abstract narrative but it has a beginning a middle development and an end and my job is then to listen to that music and say well what story are you telling me here what is the who's who is saying this what are the music talks to you is it the music talks to me in an abstract form and it's my job to translate that into a story that people will understand a character a mood a scene like it's like what listening to the soundtrack of a movie that hasn't been made yet mm-hmm you are when you we talked about Symphony Cities you said that one of the reasons you decided to try to do something with the Symphony Orchestra was because you've never done anything like that before it's not important to you to do things that you've never done before this kind of experimental stuff maybe nothing will come of it I mean you might say initially it's that something that really attracts you but you try something I've never done before absolutely I mean I get bored doing the same thing time and time again so I need constantly to change to change the format of what I'm doing the opportunity to work with a symphony orchestra doesn't happen to everyone there many many songwriters they never get to that so I grabbed that with with both hands and then you see your songs growing into that that role that maturity that that sense of relaxation that the an orchestra gives you it's it's rather wonderful now we have a little example of that that we're going to show our viewership so I'm going to ask them to watch the to take a look at the screen here and they'll all recognize the song at least most of them will an Englishman in New York yes okay let's do it [Music] but we reprogram water goes for a Grammy not a twitch cog that you gave up it's WI ting you're not after a thirsty when you're not watching so that you were still thank you for coming pleasure to be here sir usually we begin with what we call the box top which is to say we announced in advance was going to be on the show and the audience sends in questions so there's some question there's a lot of questions for you and most of them were about the song Russians hmm but we'll talk about that in detail further on these questions are not about Russians they're about other things Marat but a new cool facts what is Russia to you today how do you see Russia I find Russia a very exciting place to come to because for many years it was forbidden land for us and to come to Russia as a part of my European tour is wonderful I love st. Petersburg I love Moscow I'd like to play more in the other cities but it still has an air of mystery and magic to it that I find very exciting yeah Chuck Wolfe he says that he loves your songs that he wasn't able to attend your Moscow concert because the tickets were beyond his means he's he considers himself to be a composer he studies it at the Moscow Conservatory of Music and he asks you was it difficult for you to get to where you are how hard was it actually because he's thinking about himself I certainly didn't have it handed to me on a plate when I was young I always wanted to be a musician from being a young child but could never work out how it was actually done I practiced every day and then I I left school I became a school teacher I worked in an office I did many many jobs almost trying to figure out how to get into the business and then I struggled I went to London with no money in and was starving for a good many years and then I had an opportunity and I never regret those times because it gave my life some perspective if I had had success immediately I wouldn't have been able to judge how lucky I am right now and so I'm the timing was right I was 28 before I became celebrating 8:28 which is good I had a job I had a pension I had a family I voted I paid my tax so I was a grown-up right another gentleman asks are you a football fan and if yeah and if you are what's your favorite club my football team is from my hometown of Newcastle Newcastle United which is a very famous team we haven't won anything since 1969 but I say football is about the patience of being a good loser it's not about winning all the time you recently beat Liverpool we did beat living at all on Saturday 3-1 yes I was happy Brad Amir Ali Becca did you do things when you were young which today you wish you hadn't done no I have no regrets no no I mean if I have one regret it's that might be making someone sad because of an affair of the heart but you can't really help that you live and learn sad about a good beautify asks he says he as far as he knows you're for legalizing marijuana and in fact you've said that what's happening now when it's when it is banned and so on actually makes things worse than better why do you think that legalizing narcotics including marijuana were especially marijuana it's a good thing I think I'd like to rephrase that it's not legalizing its decriminalizing it's right decriminalize the experiment was a different thing when you make someone a criminal because they've smoked a joint that's not good for society it's not good for that person it's not good for that person's family there are problems associated I'm not I'm not lessening that at all but I think those problems are exacerbated and made worse by the criminalization process we have prisons famous as it always was you know music feeds our souls we needed to express something that is ineffable something that's indescribable something that is a mystery well let me put it differently if we were to have a concert a week from now with the best pianist in the world and the best orchestra in the world playing Bach you wouldn't fill the stadium no you wouldn't the best is here's what I'm asking boys music always expressed our feelings but in this is some something special isn't it I mean what is it you know there are two parts of the brain one side of the brain it analyzes very simple intervals and very simple rhythmic music nursery rhymes not a pop music is very very simplistic another side of the brain analyzes much more complex in divorce jazz complex since phonic music unless you've you've opened that side of the brain to music you cannot hear it as music it's it's it sounds discordant too ugly to you and therefore this is burying people so I hate jazz or I hate that I hate that twelve-tone serialism it's only because the brain hasn't been opened up to it that takes education and also it also takes patience so music is difficult at that level to get past the Nursery Rhyme level it is difficult I see my job because I live in popular music is to have a foot there but also have a foot in the other camp to occasionally to bring things out in the pop music that our first dissonant and perhaps difficult this is what I like to do I like to bring those those arcane ideas into popular music occasionally I get attacked for it at the same time I feel that's my job I'm still a teacher in that sense I'd like to introduce people to things that I find stimulating that I find make me happy and that's my job does the internet make you happy ultimately yes I think it's you know it's if the Internet is what we make it you know it's it's either full of hate and pornography and nonsense or it's full of things that are useful for our evolution the potential for both of those things are absolutely there the WikiLeaks thing is it's a very interesting phenomena and I you know I I don't know where it's going but it's a very exciting time to be alive in Russia there are some musicians who put their music on the Internet and let people download it free of charge simply saying if you want to pay for it you can send whatever money you want to pay to this or that organization and so on do you do anything like that and how do you feel about using the Internet it's that kind of a a source you know the the the old model for distributing music to to the masses is is is it's over that's not working anymore the new model hasn't been created so innovations like this may be the direction it will go in I'm not sure how you make a living that way I mean I don't mean but being a millionaire but just you know putting bread on the table as a musician so that you know that model is yet as yet to be realized I don't know what it is I'm intrigued by what's gonna happen so in 1985 you wrote Russians and as I said there was a ton of questions indignant questions mainly people saying you know did he actually does he actually or did he actually believe that we don't love our children he says I hope they love their children if they love their children does he think that we're not human being saying why did he write this in the last verse I say what will save us is because the Russian intervention - you know I was born and brought up in the West and we were educated and conditioned to look at the Soviet Union as an ideological fortress with and and also because they were our ideological enemies perhaps we would fight a war one day it's easier to find a war against people who perhaps aren't quite human and you know that was a tacky humanize they were dehumanize you were dehumanized and I was aware of that that was happening to me in the media in education generally and so I wrote this song in the early eighties it was another one of those frigid times in the Cold War we had Reagan's Star Wars wonderful Star Wars thing to protect us we had Rambo and on film you know shooting Russians up in Afghanistan I wanted to say something that was went against that feeling and I was very fortunate I had a friend who worked at Columbia University was a research scientist and he had a piece of machinery that could steal the signal from the Soviet satellite above the North Pole and so on a Saturday night he and I would go and watch Russian television but I've never seen Russian television of course it was Sunday morning in st. Petersburg on Moscow and we watched children's shows your version of Sesame Street or whatever and what struck me was how much care and love and attention had gone into these programs so clearly you know this idea that Russia didn't love their children is ridiculous and that was the basis of debt and this is why we didn't blow each other up because all of us the West and the Soviets had a stake in the future which was our children that's what I'm saying I'm saying you know we love our children and therefore we're not gonna blow the world up you know I regret that our current ideological enemies don't seem to have the same feeling you know they want to blow the world up so I saw I kind of missed the Soviets I don't know if you're aware of a Russian poet called you again you have to shed calm heard of him I know him back then he wrote a song called do the Russians want a war and it was put to music by a Soviet composer have you ever heard of it I haven't heard of that so haven't heard it okay well then let me put it this way if you had heard it it then you know do the Russians want a war question mark what would have been your answer of course that who wants war crazy people you said that you'd be very interested in singing Russians today in Russia why what people are intrigued by the song because it's still relevant well only in the context that I explained it in you know without that historical context it seems a little odd you know because Russian Russia is now opened to the west and vice versa so yeah I don't sing the song without explaining the context of it but you know if if some people are still indignant about it then I I need to explain more you know it's right I only program we'll go somewhere to do that I hope so I certainly hope so there's this the question was you know do you still believe that there's a whole Cold War's in existence and you said you hope not but the vestiges of it are still pretty much there it's the still of feeling you know and you know it can't just disappear in a day but I think the commerce of culture of ideas of art of business will be what melt those things has the world become a safer place to do things safer paper than it was when there was these two blocks no no in a way the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries is you know we really don't know what's gonna happen we sort of trusted that you know that they taunt would work and it did but now with this proliferating to countries with strange ideologies I don't know I hope 88 you voice support for Amnesty International are you active with them yeah I'm still very much a supporter of Amnesty in fact you know I had a meeting with them the other day I think it's one of the most civilized organizations in the world and that it's the writing of letters that gets gets things done you know writing a letter to the dictator actually works really enough people do it yeah I could are you a are you active politically would you say besides being a musician because you seem to be with Amnesty International some of your songs clearly have a political message I know what's going on in the world and you know if I want to say something within a metaphor I will say it that's my job I'm not a journalist I'm not a political writer but if I find a metaphor for expressing a political idea and yes I will do it I'm not sure that the world the world's problems are necessarily going to be solved by politics or or even spirituality I think our problems are psychological most of the problems we face are about a lack of consciousness a lack of being awake and I think that is what will save us you know I think we need political discourse we need we need to discuss things I'm not sure we need religion but certainly we need to look into how our brains work as human beings and this the idea of projecting evil unto your adversary to the shadow is so it's not helpful you once said that you who you had a concert in the Kremlin and obviously the people there were what they call suits in America not too responsive to what he were doing that was a while ago that was a 94 I think things changed since then yes yes I mean I've done it experience playing in the Kremlin I wanted to play to the people and so we played big sports stadiums and I've done that since then that was it was an interesting and an important first step to come here but things are much easier now and the audience is a responsive very they're always responsive but I just felt I was playing for an elite have you ever played and you know I have to answer this but I have to ask it have you ever played for what are called wrongly incidentally oligarchs in Russia I say wrongly because now they have no political power so you can call them tycoons or something back then there were oligarchs now there aren't they just very rich people have you know someone's birthday or I don't know them yeah I did that a few years ago I played for a chaps birthday I did it because one I'm curious too I believe in the power of music and I think you can plant seeds and people's minds about issues that you care about human rights or fairness in society or respect for the environment those seeds obviously won't bear fruit for a long time you know you play to a young person that they're 15 yes a person could quite easily become part of the political class a part of a class that will make decisions and that seed will have borne fruit we hope you can't change the world with a song probably not I was trying to figure out if there wasn't a song that it changed the world probably not ecology you're very active in the Brazilian for the forests in the Amazon and so what do you actually do at the moment i reaiiy merely raise money to pay for legal infrastructure for four groups of people who don't have any the problem with indigenous people in the amazon is that they they simply have no protection and so these big companies come in and they you know they give them a few hundred dollars and then they chop all the trees down and they have nothing left so create give it giving them a legal infrastructure to protect themselves teaching an illegal language for them to protect themselves is what we do and now I think we're um in 22 countries this little model seems to work in 22 countries but not all in that merit no no in the far east in the congo yeah we're a summit oriole rainforest we we work and you know i do it quietly I rarely go to the frontline I'll leave that to experts in the field I just raised the money but you follow up on it absolutely yeah when you see where the money goes we are responsible for where it goes and it's you know it's that's that's a very heavy responsibility next year you're gonna be 60 I believe right next October I will be 60 years old 60 years old you're 60 years young whatever and then there would be another important date on the 11th of September 2011 it will be 10 years since 9/11 you often speak about that day and it played a certain role in your life in Tuscany and when you were called by friends who were in the World Trade Center and you said that your strongest feeling with a feeling of shame that you brought your children to a world or something like this could happen but you have to change the world and you don't know how to do it and that there are no simple answers but the world needs to be changed you still hold that feeling oh absolutely and you still have no answers except that the hint of the problem is psychological it's it's not it's not ideological it's certainly not it's not about religious philosophy it's that it's how we think as each other as human beings we're either one thing we are nothing at all that this is my belief I'm not sure how you make that into a reality and I think the awareness of it is that probably the first step it sounds very wishy-washy and a little bit idealistic but you know it's the truth we are one thing humanity is one family all of us Muslim communists capitalists Catholic well there was a British writer who you certainly know who said East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet Rudyard Kipling and there are still a lot of people who feel that there is such a huge difference in the philosophy the culture the history the religion if you will that it's you cannot bridge it that we talk at each other and not with each other it certainly can't be bridged by by military power you know we can't force people to think the way we do or even economic power it has to be through example and through discourse and if our society works it has to work for them they have to see that it works they can't they can't be forced to choose it and so we're talking about you know a long period of time I'm not sure we have that amount of time I read somewhere that you have a farm in Tuscany I do and that you produce vegetables and that you have stories where they're so so is that a business I always wanted a shop we have a shop that sells our excess vegetables that we don't eat and we grow wine and olive oil it's very it's a very nice thing to do I haven't got time to serve in the shop myself although I would I'd bring a lot of bad food but it's really not it's not a business innit in the strict sense it's not a business that makes any money no no no it's just a nice thing to do going back to yoga can anyone be successful in practicing in any or is it something that you have to have a talent for my prince you have to have a voice to sing or at least an ear for music it depends how you define yoga you know you can't turn yourself into a pretzel just by having one lesson but Yoga it comes from the verb to yoke which means to join you know and you join your consciousness to your intention you you you you the muscles of your body to the mind it's again making one thing but what we normally consider to be too and so it's it's consciousness how you breathe how you sit how you walk how you eat Yoga is everything and it's it's basically conscious living not necessarily turning yourself into a pretzel does it then come naturally after a certain amount of time it's something you do without thinking about it or are you constantly aware that you know I have to do this and that yeah it's it's a vibe being constantly consciously aware really about everything and obviously I'm not there yet but I think being aware of it is its again the first step most of us are asleep really we go through life completely sleeping we're not I speak for myself too you know we're not awake we don't know what we're doing to the planet or to ourselves until we do until we wake up we will continue to do it wrong either because we don't want to wake up because when you think about it two minutes you do begin to understand what you're doing to yourself and what you're doing to the planet but you just don't want to know about that because it's um it makes life that much more difficult it's it seems more comfortable to be asleep but it's not it's not getting us anywhere good we have to wake up I'm just thinking about you-know-who when you're God which eventually would happen to all of it when you're down yeah believe me this is something that we're just proving how would you like to be remembered well I can only really care about my immediate family how they remembered me my children that's that's more important to me than having it you know this posterity idea of being you know the music he that he made I think I brought my children up well there they seemed happy and they seemed healthy and I'd like like them to bring their children up well that's really what my my ambition is for the future that we know that carry on differently for instance the Beatles no matter what they may think or have thought they played a very important role in the world they had they their music impacted a lot of people and changed people yeah there's no doubt about that so when you look back on them you look back on them as a force in in history and I was asking you do you think that that's something first of all that applies to you as well and secondly would you like it to apply in the future you know the Beatles because of where they were in a time in place in history were a catalyst to that history could it have happened to another group of people I simply don't know but they they satisfied that job and they freed me they gave me my life so I gravitate for it I don't I don't think I'm a particular catalyst for anything I'm still trying to just state ideas that I think will have should have a bearing like this idea of waking up and being conscious but it's it's not gonna it's not a kind of catalyst the way the Beatles were it's not that's not my time in history what about the future for you I mean as a musician Symphony Orchestra fine what do you know what's next no idea what's next except you know I'm the eternal student and I'm I'm here to learn and I still I still practice I still study and I can't get music I think oh I would simply just die if I gave up music I don't know what's next I have no idea but again I like that at the last question this is not a serious one how do you feel about the fact that the Russians got the 1918 World Cup and the Brits did not you would have to spoil the whole atmosphere I thought the the the British had a very good presentation you know on paper I thought we deserved it but also I'm happy for Russia I think it's fantastic for Russia you know so I'm very pleased for you I'm sad for us but I'm pleased for you um at the end of each show I do a little Marcel Proust questionnaire my good friend Marcel always asked me to do this so I'm gonna ask you ten questions oh all right what for you is the peak of happiness Oh being with my family what is your favorite word laconic and what is your least favorite nice where and when were you happiest last time I just like family what is what would you call your main achievement having six healthy children what would you call your greatest weakness my vanity if 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Channel: Ian Dmitriyevitch

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Length: 52min 0sec (3120 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 28 2011