Since this thread is already bizarre...

>>Music is one field where your caste and religion is not important.

Strongly disagree. To perform music professionally in northern India, caste is of utmost significance. Musicians usually belong to the most marginalized minority groups, especially Dalits or former "outcastes." For documented centuries, "higher" caste people have avoided musical performance for fear of its stigma, to lose their status. By the same token, the musicians, of "lower" caste, have been viewed as polluting or at least with suspicion.

Religion may be viewed as excluding of music. In orthodox Islam, "religion" and "music" (musiqah in Arabic) are mutually exclusive categories. This introduces various conundra in cross-cultural circumstances.

One could argue that music, in fact, articulates (or supports the articulation of) social identities including caste and religious identities.

That an Indian would say this quote is quite strange, if not oblivious. It's a really bland version of 19th century Western European epistemology, usually conceived in the context of "absolute" Classical music.