Ali Akbar Khan Quotes

#1. I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Lupe Fiasco

#2. I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather. The team scored a touchdown. They showed the instant replay. He thought they scored another one. I was gonna tell him, but I figured the game HE was watching was better.

Steven Wright

#3. I think I'm a really tough player.

Caroline Wozniacki

#4. Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

Ali Akbar Khan

#5. How is it possible to reconcile the sense that the universe in which we have been cast has a significance when we are so aware of the jumbled trivia of day-to-day living? How is

Leo Tolstoy

#6. A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

Johnny Cash

#7. If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

#8. Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind ... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Ali Akbar Khan

#9. Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

Peter Ustinov

#10. Living life intensely has a momentum and exhilaration of its own. Thinking about events you have experienced, and developing perspective about them, in some way completes, and finding words to express them gives perspective and bring about a sense of closure.

Bill Bradley

#11. Cale! Have you had a female in here?"

Calic laughed carelessly. "Depends on when you're referring to.

Kiersten Fay

#12. Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#13. Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument ... actually, you are singing inside.

Ali Akbar Khan

#14. Music is like a river or stream that has come down to us through time, bringing nurture to man's soul. From the past masters, this music flowed to my father and through him to me. I want to keep this stream flowing. I don't want it to die. It must spread all over the world.

Ali Akbar Khan

#15. Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

Jonah Winter

#16. I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

Matt Bomer

#17. I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

Keith Haring

#18. Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lydon

#19. Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die.

Ali Akbar Khan

#20. However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

Helen Dunmore

#21. Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential.

Steven Redhead