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Ravi Shankar Quotes

1920–2012 India

Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) commonly known by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar. He is known as the best-known contemporary Indian musician.

India
Composers
Musicians

Also known as: Shankar, Ravi

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Thank you, if you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more.

To the audience at The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)

The magic happens only when the artist serves with love and the listener receives with the same spirit.

When John Coltrane came to me, he looked different from his contemporaries: so clean, well-mannered and humble. About six months earlier he had apparently given up drugs and drink, become a vegetarian and taken to reading Ramakrishna's book's.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ravi Shankar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.