..::/dunja knebl/..::

If songs can't be heard and listened to - they are dead. I have always loved to sing. When I found books containing hundreds of beautiful Croatian folk songs that have never been recorded, I began doing what I have been doing since: turning notes and written words into music. Most of all I would like these songs to be sung by other people. It is absurd that this computer-wise generation should forget songs that have been handed down from generation to generation in times when even pen and paper could not be found in many a household.

We often yearn to be somewhere else or somebody else, even if that option is not a superior one. We always speed towards a distant goal not having the slightest idea about that which is close at hand.

I am extremely happy because I do not have to go anywhere. The most beautiful songs are here where I am now. As are both the place and the period of time.

(My comments on the sleeve of the album entitled OVER THERE /DA SAM BAREM GUSKA may be applied to all my music.)