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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

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
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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Assignment Director Movie Music Myself Share
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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Composer Drastic Hands Scope
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.
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Interview Myself People Practice Question Wrong
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.
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Award Emotional Myself People Respect
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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Appreciation Association Change Concept Imagination Kind Live Myself Revolution
I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.
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Childhood Hard Work Myself Place Play
I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man’s voice, and he was truly versatile.
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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.
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Fierce Force Master Myself Temperature
I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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Fill Journey Life Love Myself
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.
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Believe Experience Follow Life Lose Money Myself Rule Sacrifice Understand
I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Classic Learning Myself Time
One has to be fully committed to one’s career. Otherwise, there’s no point.
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Career Commitment Oneself Point
I have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.
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Assignment Decision Interest Myself
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.
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Bad Day Feeling Kind Music Myself
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

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