Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kumar Sanu - Page 2

Audiences are demanding more movies like 'Slumdog Millionaire.' Poverty in India is a very important issue that we want to highlight.

I take it as a compliment to be compared with a legend like Kishore Kumar.

You can't make just foot-tapping numbers or take inspiration from Western music. Such songs won't work.

The fact that you have contracted Covid-19 isn't an easy thing to deal with. I was anxious and scared too, initially. Since I was alone, the first few days were all the more difficult. I was following instructions given by doctors but somewhere I was worried given how the virus has taken many lives and the kind of damage it has done to others.

Music is what feelings sound like, and to sing a meaningfully melodious composition like 'Suno apne dil ki' is a rarity.

Hyderabad has always been special for me.

I have tremendous respect for Pakistani artistes, they are very talented, especially where music sense and melody is concerned.

I do a lot of shows worldwide and don't have to depend on acting to make money. I've been part of this industry for too long to consider that option.

I like to move with the times and that's why my songs are fresh.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

One should not promote lyrics that are vulgar.

Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out of favor.

It has always been my dream to open a school for the poor children in the city who drop out of school due to financial problems.

The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that. Else, we'll have short lived chart toppers which dim on public memory that moment the film if off screens.

Frankly, I have no interest in politics.

If an emotional song can be fit into a funny video, what is so bad about it?

Who says I haggled for money? If directors like Yash Chopra promised me an amount for singing 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam' but back-tracked once the song was a huge hit, am I to blame for asking what was due to me?

It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept. What about the other three artists?

I am the fastest singer in our industry.

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.

Our music has gotten polluted today. We are straying far from our culture. Other people are trying to grab our culture, but we are very far from our culture.

I have sung in many languages in my decades long career and Telugu is one of them.

It's important to have an open mind while singing.

Everyone knows that Badshah is my big fan, but nobody knows about me being his biggest fan!

I don't make movies for the masses. My interest lies in portraying reality, and it gives me great satisfaction.

If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.

Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that singers aren't singing, but shouting out loud. Where's the melody?

I can never stop singing... it has given me recognition and fame.

The audience will always be receptive to good music if they are provided that.

Every singer has his or her uniqueness.

Singers put emotions into songs which the actors later replicate on screen. When I know that I can also present myself well on-screen, why not do that?

I feel preparation is a vital part of music as without it, the spontaneity goes haywire.

I have sung 14,000 songs in 22 languages.

The good thing is that people have slowly started helping each other and not shunning Corona patients to a corner.

Every good singer is a good actor.

Music has always followed a cyclic trend.

If LPs were replaced by cassettes and then audio cds and now digital media... That is inevitable. No point in lamenting.

If the media keeps playing a bad track 500 times a day for financial reason, obviously the common listener will only end up listening to such kind of music.

I like the audience to be engaged with the numbers I am singing and do not repeat my songs at any of my concerts. There are thousands of songs that I have lent my voice to with so many other singers, so why bore my audience by singing the same songs?