My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. Ravi Shankar More Quotes by Ravi Shankar More Quotes From Ravi Shankar Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. Ravi Shankar hygiene months literature Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart. Ravi Shankar enlightenment journey heart Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special. Ravi Shankar enlightenment special thinking Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner. Ravi Shankar flower country book Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come...believe in them. They reflect your true nature. Ravi Shankar spiritual beautiful happiness In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. Ravi Shankar respect musical culture There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly. Ravi Shankar heaven religion What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge. Ravi Shankar fantastic creative doe We have asked WhatsApp to explain the kind of breach and what it is doing to safeguard the privacy of millions of Indian citizens. Ravi Shankar technology The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer. Ravi Shankar i-have-learned music prayer god There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. Ravi Shankar day you sunset ocean 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 live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. Ravi Shankar live down never music In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. Ravi Shankar i-am me music believe Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple. Ravi Shankar young-people young listening people My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.' Ravi Shankar musicians music brother beautiful I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music. Ravi Shankar you quality music soul My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. Ravi Shankar deep fairy-tale music ambition I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. Ravi Shankar bad good new-things love I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. Ravi Shankar i-am you spiritual happy I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that. Ravi Shankar great time night long
