I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come... →
Tupac Shakur
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such... →
Tom Shales
My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they... →
Ravi Shankar
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on... →
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I... →
I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it -... →
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they... →
My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.