Ravi Shankar Zitate auf Englisch

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I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

I think musicians and actors have all these problems, because of the popularity and the opportunity.

Ravi Shankar

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

Ravi Shankar

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.

Ravi Shankar

I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

Ravi Shankar

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

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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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One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Ravi Shankar

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.'

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I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that.

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I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.

Ravi Shankar

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

Ravi Shankar

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.

Ravi Shankar

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

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I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

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