You can't run away from the fact that you cannot ignore hard work.
Work on not becoming good but excellent.
Music in our schools is considered to be an extra-curricular activity in which you teach your students a few patriotic songs and bhajans that children are not interested in.
If you are teaching a kid about seasons, you can put it in a song. He will definitely take interest. I wish to put every physics formula into a song, and it will become very easy for the student to learn.
Bollywood takes up a lot of time.
Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.
Music is all about creativity.
Musicians should understand that it is not just about creating one hit but to sustain it at the top.
There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.
I always believe that you have to give back what you have learnt.
I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.
I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.
Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music.
You can be successful without learning music, but success has nothing to do with quality.
You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.
People should feel proud about the music that we have in our country, and that's my objective.
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.
The feeling of being able to do something for your own country is unmatchable.
I will be singing till my last breath.
My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.
