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"A fresh approach to a work of music usually comes to those who have a fresh approach to aspects of life, to life in general."
- Dmitri Shostakovich
"When inner feelings become intense, that's when a sur is born."
Gaanasaraswathi Kishori Amonkar
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
''Performance is an unrehearsed experiment—an improvisation.''
—Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri
"There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"Music is like an unceasing flow of nectar. Even if we cease to exist, the music will never end."
Pt. Rajan Mishra
"Music begins where the possibilities of language end."
Jean Sibelius
"The future of classical music is not bright, it is radiant."
Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this is what upheld me in time of misery.''
- Ludvig van Beethoven
"As a shishya, dedication is must; but not slavery."
- Pt. Arun Dravid
"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."
- Edward Elgar
"The magic happens only when the artist serves with love and the listener receives with the same spirit."
- Pt. Ravi Shankar
"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."
-Yehudi Menuhin
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov
