In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat,’ they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
LATA MANGESHKARI have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.
More Lata Mangeshkar Quotes
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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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.
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I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man’s voice, and he was truly versatile.
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I have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.
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I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wouldn’t let a biopic be made on me. That’s because I don’t believe in them. I don’t like them.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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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.
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One has to be fully committed to one’s career. Otherwise, there’s no point.
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I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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