"I don't relate to all this in exactly the same way that John [McLaughlin] does and yet we all meet at the same points eventually, can't find a label for it, but I know what it is when I get there. It's funny, you know, sometimes the way I experience the music is with a total involvement with doing feel the music getting better and better, and gradually it becomes like a light at the end of a hallway, and I just want to get there as quickly as I can to see where it's going to go."
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Billy Cobham on relating to McLaughlin's being, influenced by Sri Chinmoy, as quoted by Don Heckman in "Call Him Mahavishnu" The New York Times (14 May 1972).
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