Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Lata Mangeshkar

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Last updated on November 17, 2024.

Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Voice of the Millennium".

Indian - Musician | Born: September 28, 1929

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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

Lata Mangeshkar

For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.

Lata Mangeshkar

I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.

Lata Mangeshkar

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

Lata Mangeshkar

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

Lata Mangeshkar

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

Lata Mangeshkar

People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

Lata Mangeshkar

I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

Lata Mangeshkar

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

Lata Mangeshkar

The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

Lata Mangeshkar

I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today's music.

Lata Mangeshkar

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.

Lata Mangeshkar

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

Lata Mangeshkar

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

Lata Mangeshkar

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

Lata Mangeshkar

I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

Lata Mangeshkar

I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

Lata Mangeshkar

In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

Lata Mangeshkar

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

Lata Mangeshkar

I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

Lata Mangeshkar

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

Lata Mangeshkar

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

Lata Mangeshkar

Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

Lata Mangeshkar

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

Lata Mangeshkar

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

Lata Mangeshkar

Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

Lata Mangeshkar

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Lata Mangeshkar

Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Lata Mangeshkar

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