Indian Musician Quotes

Ravi Shankar

Ram Narayan

Amir Khusrau

Dad used to say it's [live recording] the backbone for any musical endeavour. And I've realised that with time. So most often, my re-recordings are live. Technology does enhance music, but the warmth of a live orchestra is incomparable. Fans wrote to me after 'Oru Devadai…' (Vaamanan) saying the score had a divine quality. That's because it was done live. Besides, I'm also conscious of the employment problem that technology-driven music creates.

Yuvan Shankar Raja

By and large the present day Indian film music lacks soulful melody, sublime spirit and compelling charm of its lyrical intensity and has nothing Hindustani in it.

The magic happens only when the artist serves with love and the listener receives with the same spirit.

Won't you draw back the curtain within me,
O Lord Venkataramana of Tirupati,
Open up this screen of envy.

If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.