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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 - that's the duty of the music.

From Ravi Shankar

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.

From 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.

From Ravi Shankar

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

From Ravi Shankar

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

From Ravi Shankar

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.

From Ravi Shankar

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

From Ravi Shankar

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

From Ravi Shankar

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

From Ravi Shankar

There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.

From Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

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