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Ravi Shankar
Indian
Musician
Born:
Apr 7
,
1920
Died:
Dec 11
,
2012
Believe
Me
Music
Musicians
People
You
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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
Sad
Fight
Book
Country
Flower
Everybody
Our
Composition
Over
Like
Very
Anyone
Anything
Flavor
Dislike
Manner
Such Things
Actually
Right
Things
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
Ravi Shankar
God
Respect
Culture
Our
Musical
Part
Like
Instruments
When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
Ravi Shankar
Me
People
Made
Way
Say
People Say
True
George
George Harrison
Famous
The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.
Ravi Shankar
Music
God
Prayer
Worshipping
Give
Absolutely
Like
Learned
Want
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.
Ravi Shankar
Day
You
Sunset
Sunrise
Feeling
Ocean
Nine
Moods
Scales
Thousands
Like
Principally
Call
Emptiness
Praying
Times
Get
Sitting
Different
Connected
Different Times
Based
Night
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.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Down
Live
Indian
Indian Music
Composed
Classical
Classical Music
Never
Written
Written Down
Individuals
Perform
Sounds
Same
Improvised
Certain
Twice
Based
Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.
Ravi Shankar
Beatles
People
Listening
Young
Since
Disciple
Became
George
George Harrison
Young People
Many
Started
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.'
Ravi Shankar
Beautiful
Music
Musicians
Made
Own
Monotonous
Dancers
Indian
Indian Music
Brother
Classical
Paris
Point
Had
House
Said
Came
Hear
Western
Same
Many
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.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Spiritual
You
Soul
Quality
Try
Duty
Analyzing
Give
Something
Does
Very
Which
Realizing
Deep
Even
One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.
Ravi Shankar
Three
Single
Performed
Hours
Two
I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Dancer
Out
More
Became
Gradually
Interested
Started
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
Work
Love
Art
Own
Believe
Enough
Picasso
Owning
Anyway
Really
Millions
To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.
Ravi Shankar
Me
You
States
Had
Know
Always
Childhood
Fascination
United
United States
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.
Ravi Shankar
Success
Musicians
Happy
Old
Young
Enjoy
Other
Indian
Seeing
Some
Having
Coming
America
Europe
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.
Ravi Shankar
Music
Myself
Musicians
Think
Other
Everything
Saw
Composed
Record
All-Time
Only
Inspiring
Along
Hours
Most
Spontaneously
Wrote
Within
Spot
Done
Anywhere
Film
Four
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
Ravi Shankar
People
Wonderful
Half
Admired
Performing
Hippies
Woodstock
Million
Million People
Playing
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