- John McLaughlin: For me, music is the true spiritual voice of the human being I mean how is it that everybody understand, relate and enjoy music? Whether you come from this culture or that culture or any culture - it doesn't matter. It's wonderful. The true language of the human spirit is music. And this is the opposite of all war and aggression... what we see so much of in the world I've been saved personally by music. I feel this very profoundly. And I'm sure music has saved a lot of people in the world. It's a power for reunification.