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Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.

— Bismillah Khan

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Tradition takes time to change. But it changes, all right. All that I have to do is to keep trying.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive....Music has no caste.

God knows no religion. God belongs to mankind. I realized this while playing at the Balaji temple.

Sukriya. An image can never be the real thing. Varanasi is where the Ganga flows, where I can play the Shehnai for Lord Balaji. I shall be at home, nowhere else but in India.

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