Tariq Ali Quotes

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

Indian classical music is charming and currently there are a wide range of musicians who bring great classical tunes to the Bollywood industry.

I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.

As a teen, I enjoyed Sufi music and ghazals the most. But as my career began, I drifted off to playback and other streams over the years.

I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaja, and all these people.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

I come from a very strenuous, strict, disciplined classical music background. My grandfather, noted Carnatic classical exponent Dr. Sripada Pinakapani, was a Padma Bhushan recipient.

When K. Vishwanath made the film 'Shankarabharanam,' he wanted to bring back Carnatic classical music to mainstream. It's popularity was waning in those days.

As a disciple of my father's, I was certain I wanted to include one of his own raga creations on 'Home', as they are so beautiful; whilst many of his creations are part of the general classical repertoire for all musicians, many more are only played by those of us who learned from him, and therefore need to be played.

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.

I love to simplify the ragas and use them in my music as much as possible.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

My roots are Carnatic music. I think everything stems from that.

I trained in Hindustani, and then I went to music school.

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.

Why English music is being taught in some schools? The government should make arrangements to promote Indian classical music among students.

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.