Ravi Shankar Quotes

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Ravi Shankar

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 7, 1920

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

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

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

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

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I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

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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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Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on the spot, along with myself and only four other musicians, and everything was done within 4-1/2 hours, I think an all-time record anywhere.

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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.

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I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.

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