You don't have sound systems, you don't have TV, nothing. So if you want to have fun you make instruments and play music. Which they did, out of tin cans or anything they could find. For Backo, making your own instruments is part of the spirituality of music. And during his many years of presentations and workshops in Quebec schools, he taught this to kids, hoping to instill in them a sense of the power of music.
Music can cure people.
It's universal, it's spiritual. Music is not just because people play. Someone writes a tune, and in one week 20 million may hear it. There's magic there. We as human beings cannot even describe it.