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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.

Lata Mangeshkar

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
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
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 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 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’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
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
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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Alone Myself Night Record Start Thinking Training Travel Work
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
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 wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Classic Learning Myself Time
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
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.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Assignment Director Movie Music Myself Share
One has to be fully committed to one’s career. Otherwise, there’s no point.
LATA MANGESHKAR

Career Commitment Oneself Point
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

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