Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by K. J. Yesudas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian musician K. J. Yesudas.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian, in a career spanning six decades. He is often referred to as Gaanagandharvan. He is one of the highly acclaimed singers in India. Yesudas holds the record for singing 11 songs in different languages in a single day. He has also composed a number of Malayalam film songs during the 1970s and 1980s.

Indian - Musician | Born: January 10, 1940

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I love singing devotional songs, in whatever language.

K. J. Yesudas

My father was a very popular singer and stage actor during his time, in the 1950s. But he didn't take any formal lessons in music, which was probably why he insisted I study music so I could get a proper base and build a strong career in it.

K. J. Yesudas

I just continue to do my work with dedication. Really, it's my listeners who have given me 40 years of bhushana. However, my ultimate probably would be to sing in front of god. That will be something.

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God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.

K. J. Yesudas

Even when someone introduced the women as someone's daughter or wife, they maintained a distance. With the advent of selfies, people now want to click with all the touching, coming so close.

K. J. Yesudas

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

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What should be covered must be covered. Women should not trouble others by wearing jeans.

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It's my duty to upkeep and safeguard my voice, my ability to sing.

K. J. Yesudas

One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don't hone your craft.

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It's not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

K. J. Yesudas

I have no problem with someone wanting to take a photograph with me. It is a no for selfies with touching of bodies.

K. J. Yesudas

When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.

K. J. Yesudas

I didn't learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father's advice and learn as much as I could about music.

K. J. Yesudas

My parents - Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth - discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.

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Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

K. J. Yesudas

Before the '80s, no girl would ask to click a photograph. That was modest and demure.

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I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

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There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.

K. J. Yesudas

You should be an example for your children. I show my three children what I am and expect them to live by certain controls. But, by the grace of god, they are good kids.

K. J. Yesudas

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

K. J. Yesudas