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" I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised. "
Ravi Shankar
Someone
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Good
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" I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. "
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" Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple. "
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" I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning art, anyway. "
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" Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. "
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" I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going. "
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Will
Body
" One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours. "
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" 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 the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. "
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" In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. "
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Twice
Same
" Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. "
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