Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kumar Sanu
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I started my career with Shatrughan Sinha's home production 'Aandhiyaan' that was never completed. It was a song to be enacted by him and was composed by Jagjit Singh.
After I remarried, I moved out of India because I did not have much work in Mumbai. But whenever I visited India, I would get in touch with my sons Jessy, Jeeko, and Jaan.
The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing such songs.
If I get good Bollywood offers, I would love to act.
My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.
Love can't be just one-sided. It's always two ways.
When I am in Calcutta, for instance, I often charge nothing for singing for debutant directors and small producers who cannot afford to pay me.
When Mohammed Rafi was not an active playback singer, Kishore Kumar dominated the scene and vice-versa.
I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'
I love and respect all languages of India. I have sung songs in different languages.
So, we should work on imparting quality education and make our children responsible citizens. For that, we should also come forward and do our bit. So I want to open an academic institute for the underprivileged children, where they can acquire knowledge and become responsible citizens.
My best work was with Nadeem-Shravan, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Anand-Milind and also Rajesh Roshan and Bappi Lahiri.
I don't have any ambition to become minister.
Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.
I can play character roles for sure.
In 2012, I had joined BJP to get some help for my schools for the orphans that are run in Delhi and Kolkata. However, no help came to my school. So, I have not been in any party politics.
My style is simple. It is out and out melody.
Yes, Kishore Kumar inspired me, but there was no pressure. I used to copy his style initially.
Having various types of fish in Kolkata is a must have and I am enjoying that every day for lunch and dinner.
Jaan would send me songs and ask me what I thought about his singing. I have always encouraged him, and I always will. He asked me to call a few industry people who I know. I called Mukesh Bhattji, Ramesh Tauraniji and a few others, and Jaan went to meet them, but now it's up to them if they want to give him work.
As soon as you come to Mumbai, get a job, then start your struggle. That's what I did.
People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors have social responsibility.
My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia gang and around 20,000 more people were present. I sang in fear and danced too and luckily, they liked it.
There are two things that I hold close to my heart. One is that I got the opportunity to playback sing for actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan and second was working with playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.
I feel Arijit Singh is a versatile singer.
Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that's good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now.
I feel scared going before the public and it has been like this forever. After one song is over, I feel better.
I can't even stay with my wife Saloni and my two daughters for a long span of time, as I have to travel all over the world for concerts.
My work is such that I can never be in one place for a long duration.
I love to work with all composers as that gives an artist variety.
He should write his name as Jaan Rita Bhattacharya, not Jaan Kumar Sanu because, firstly, Ritaji has done a lot for him, and secondly, people will start comparing him with me, which is not good for him as a newcomer. I'd be the happiest father to see him successful.
Maharashtra, Mumbai and Mumba Devi blessed me and gave me name, fame and everything else.
I made it clear to myself at least 50 times that I am neither associated with any party nor do I have any transaction with any party. I have only one party, which is music party.
All great singers copy someone else in the initial stages.
There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.
I sang at least one hit for almost every star - Dharmendra, Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna included, and several hits for all the Khans, Akshay Kumar, Rishi Kapoor and many more.
Just because I have joined the BJP does not mean that I am an active BJP member.
My reason for joining politics is not to make money, as I have enough of my own, but to help the poor.
I managed to make an identity as a playback singer in the industry; I thought I'll never be able to do that.
I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.
Music should change. Technically, we have come a long way - matching up to the international standard. It is good.
Lyrics of some songs are vulgar... I feel they are not good for the society.
Mumbai is not safe anymore.
When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.
Nepotism exists everywhere.
Life is uncertain, so I have learnt to enjoy each moment.
If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address the issue effectively.
After following the footsteps of the greats, each singer must carve out his own identity, else he will perish.
I think the kind of togetherness and understanding between music directors and singers, and between producers and directors, is not the same anymore. Now, it's all too professional.
I want to work for the people of Bengal.
I did a cameo in 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha.'
Bengaluru is a beautiful place with a great weather and I am looking forward to seeing more of the city during my next trip.
I always charge for my songs and never sing for free.
In fact, when Jaan wanted to be a part of some of my live concerts, I let him join me for a few.
Whatever I have sung over the years, people remember the song first by the 'dhun' and words.
When I receive an award it gives me more encouragement, hope and drive to go forward with my voice to sing better and better.
'Hum-Tum' is my tribute to Kishor Kumar as he is my idol.
I really didn't like the songs that were being offered to me. There was no melody and no meaning to them. That's why I have not been singing in Bollywood for a while.
I specially want to work for the poor children and want to provide them with education.
There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.
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