Admired Quote by Ravi Shankar

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

— Ravi Shankar

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

— Ravi Shankar

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

— Ravi Shankar

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the…

— Ravi Shankar

There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.

— Ravi Shankar

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.

— Ravi Shankar

I love the work of Matisse and Picasso, but I don't have enough millions to own one. And I don't really believe in owning…

— Ravi Shankar

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

— Ravi Shankar

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing…

— Ravi Shankar

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform…

— Ravi Shankar

I appreciate very much Vilayat Khan, the sitar player, and Bismillah Khan, the shehnai player; and among the tabla players, of course, Alla Rakha,…

— Ravi Shankar

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time;…

— Ravi Shankar