I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated every moment of it and tried virtually every trick to get out of it. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one even knew… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
Very often I would mix up my lines and look angry in a romantic scene or romantic in the midst of a fierce battle. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
Directors were like schoolteachers. Do this. Do that. Don't do this. Don't do that. I dreaded it. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
I am an actor who sings off screen for another actor. That is what playback singing is all about. — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
I am determined to get out of this futile rat race and live as I've always wanted to. In my native Khandwa, the land… — Kishore Kumar Copy Share Image
