Quotes About Indian Classical Music

#1. The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

Tariq Ali

#2. Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

Tariq Ali

#3. Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Norah Jones

#4. I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

Satyajit Ray

#5. The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

Joseph Campbell

#6. Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new.

Hafez Nazeri

#7. This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.

Rose Wynters

#8. It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Charles A. Murray

#9. Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

Yayoi Kusama

#10. There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

Daniel Hope

#11. The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

#12. 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

#13. How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

Faraaz Kazi

#14. To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Alice Sebold

#15. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

#16. I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

A.R. Rahman

#17. her skin nearly transparent, as if her body was halfway to heaven already, with only her fierce, eaglelike gaze left behind.

Jennifer Bernard

#18. Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#20. Nothing can separate us from God's love.

Suzanne Eller

#21. Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led.

Oswald Chambers

#22. 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

#23. When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Henry Flynt

#24. There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

Justin Theroux

#25. I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Derek Hough

#26. Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.

Shobhaa De

#27. Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

Harry Emerson Fosdick