Alla Rakha Quotes

#1. I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

Ravi Shankar

#2. Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Charles Bukowski

#3. I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

#4. Muttering a curse, he wiped his face with a towel and wondered why everyone suddenly felt that they had to offer an opinion on his love life, although he was fairly sure he had never asked for anyone's views on the matter.

Suzanne Harper

#5. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Jessa Crispin

#6. Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#7. A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.

Demetri Martin

#8. As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Angela Bassett

#9. I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Rupert Holmes

#10. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

John Barth