“If you practice for 10 years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may even please your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist - then you may please even God.”
“Each raga has its own mood and its own time, you see. If you play ragas in their proper times, that mood will come. Of course it will take some time, some practice. But if you play them at the wrong time, one day you will call for that mood and it won’t come. Just like your friend - if you treat him badly, will he come to visit you?”
“Our sages developed music from time immemorial for the mind to take shelter in that pure being which stands apart as one’s true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honours, or even for the joys of the mind - it is one kind of yoga, a path of self-realization and salvation, to purify your mind and heart - this is what I truly feel...”
