5 Quotes & Sayings By Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar was born on April 7, 1920 in Benares, India. He is an Indian musician and composer. His music is widely known and appreciated in the world. He belongs to an aristocratic family of musicians of the Kashmir Valley and he is the nephew of the sitarist and musician Ustad Allauddin Khan Read more

Ravi Shankar was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family; his father Pandit Pran Nath was a prominent musician and professor at the Trinity College in Kolkata and later became the Principal Conservator of Music for the Government of India. His mother was a singer and music teacher at the Durga Sangeet Sabha, a music academy located in Calcutta. Ravi Shankar also had two sisters: Mrs.

Shanta Kumar (a classical vocalist), and Mrs. Sudha Mitra (a sitarist).

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In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. Ravi Shankar
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I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. Ravi Shankar
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Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. Ravi Shankar
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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. Ravi Shankar