Lata Mangeshkar Quotes

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I make the kind of music I like.

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

I'm playin' the music I like.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I've always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.

It sucks when you can't play the game you love.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

Really, I only listen to like five songs.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Pretty much everybody loves music. Like, there are those weird people that don't like music, and I don't really understand that at all, to be honest.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

I've got the country station on my radio.

Don't move to L.A to become an actress - you'll just be a waitress. Don't drive to Nashville to become a country music star - you'll just end up playing empty honky-tonks at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday.

I don't make any secret of it - I hate not playing.

I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

First and foremost, play what you love to play. Don't try to jump on a bandwagon or a trend or a popular musical craze.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.