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I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.

Lata Mangeshkar

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Appreciation Association Change Concept Imagination Kind Live Myself Revolution
I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Bad Day Feeling Kind Music Myself
I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don’t think I’ve worked as hard as many other people.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Earth Feeling Myself People Sing
I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Act Missing Music Myself Play Sing Thinking
When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn’t think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Alone Myself Night Record Start Thinking Training Travel Work
I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Childhood Hard Work Myself Place Play
Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit that’s it.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Composer Drastic Hands Scope
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Believe Experience Follow Life Lose Money Myself Rule Sacrifice Understand
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my ‘monopoly.’ The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Interview Myself People Practice Question Wrong
I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man’s voice, and he was truly versatile.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Man Myself True Voice
I have a fierce temper. I’ve mastered it over the years, but when I’m angry, no one can force me to do anything I don’t want to.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Fierce Force Master Myself Temperature
The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can’t afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Afford Class Myself Need Personal Price Privilege Small Thinking
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Children Death Father Home Myself Responsibility Start Time Work
For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Award Emotional Myself People Respect
I wouldn’t let a biopic be made on me. That’s because I don’t believe in them. I don’t like them.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Believe Biopic Myself
I have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Assignment Decision Interest Myself

I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.

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I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today’s music.

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