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I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

Lata Mangeshkar

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Break Deserve Justice Myself Sing Talent Time
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 have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Assignment Decision Interest Myself
There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Myself Room Sing Television
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 MANGESHKAR

Achievement Big Change Opinion Play Sing
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
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
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
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’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Fill Journey Life Love Myself
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
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
I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Believe God Hands Myself Power Religion Respect
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 wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Classic Learning Myself Time
One has to be fully committed to one’s career. Otherwise, there’s no point.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Career Commitment Oneself Point

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