Ravi Shankar Quotes

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

I still have my original love for acting. That's why I feel so lucky. I think that's what sustains me in the sort of leaner times.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

I've got a very short attention span, and this has been part of the reason I'm so kind of dumbfounded at the fact that I've still stayed with music. Nothing has ever stuck for me, and music's the only thing that's managed to stick out for a long period of time.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.

I love what I do. I love playing music.

Music is my passion, and where there is a will there is a way.

I realised music was my calling, and I am one of those who's strongly bound by an infectious enthusiasm and passion.

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.