You can reach a trance-like state where what's really going on inside the human psyche is being sung to

It's just about being alive, my songs. And about even emitting sound. It's about the voice carrying much more information than the words do. The fact is, there are so many other areas you can go with other instruments going on at the same time. You can reach a trance-like state where what's really going on inside the human psyche is being sung to... the music aims at what's really going on underneath... not what people pretend to be or what they hope they can buy at a store. The little scared kid or the full-on romantic lover is being accessed. There are really majestic qualities about people that can be reached through music. People are incredible to me even though I'm healthily cynical sometimes. It's because we are spirits and the whole tension is that we don't know that we are. Yet, music is able to touch this.

Interview with Aldin Vaziri - 1994?

i prefer to learn everything through music

"I don't have any allegiance to an organized religion; I have an allegiance to the gifts that I find for myself in those religions... I'd rather be non-denominational, except for music. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real. But I don't believe in a big guy with a beard on a throne, telling us that we're bad; I certainly don't believe in original sin. I believe in the opposite of that: you have an Eden immediately from the time you are born, but as you are conditioned by your caretakers and your surroundings, you may lose that original thing. Your task is to get back to it, to claim responsibility for your own perfection."

it never was material things

"You know how little moments stand out? I remember coming across a parking lot in Pennsylvania and everybody had a couple of groupies on each arm, you know? And as I was walking by I looked in the car and there was Duane sitting there reading a book. I always thought of him as being on a higher spiritual plane than the rest of us. He was really trying to accomplish a lot, and it never was material things. It was musical things."

Allman Brothers Band roadie Kim Payne on Duane Allman