Sonu Nigam Quotes

I have been singing since I was a child, and I am a trained Hindustani classical singer.

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

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

Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

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

Ghazal singing will come back with a bang.

Playback singing has always been my dream.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.

Think of Hridaynath Mangeshkar's 'Mira bhajans.' I have bought these records three to four times, as I listen to them so often.

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

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

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

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.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

I think I knew when I was about 2 and a half that I wanted to be a singer.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

There was a jingle house called Lucas/McFaul in New York, and they called me 'the demo king.' I almost never had the big final - in jingles, you have the big final, and then you sing on it, and you make a good deal of money.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

My parents are both into music. My mom sings and my dad plays piano, so there was always music everywhere. I was singing at a very young age, but I actually got my buzz through rapping.