Raga Quotes

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

Shobhaa De

#2. In its totality, a raga is a combination of musical heritage, technical elements, emotional charge, cognitive understanding and aural identity.

T.M. Krishna

#3. One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Ravi Shankar

#4. When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.

John McLaughlin

#5. In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

#7. The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. We all traverse in and out of people's worlds, leaving footprints. Some larger, some smaller, but there is always a mark. We can't sweep it away.

Krista Ritchie

#9. I am not a great sleeper. I don't think I have ever slept 8 hours straight in the last 20 years.

Scott Kelly

#10. To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

E.W. Howe

#11. At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..

Charles P. Pierce

#12. You have to feel the bad to be able to feel the good.

Stephen Dorff