2. What beauty lies in this frozen form, this architecture which Goethe called 'frozen music'!
3. The call of the heavens beckons me to listen to the music of the spheres cascading through empty space and filling it to fullness.
4. It is getting to the hour when the raag Lalit will fill the air with the madhyams and the dhaivat awaking the slumbering soul.
5. When music stirs the soul, it takes one straight to the sanctum sanctorum where all is melodic and blissfully free.
6. "Tumi toh sa re ma te achhe go."...Sri Ramakrishna to Trailokyanath Sanyal
7. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was a vocalist extraordinaire the like of which we are yet to see again.
8. Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, the co-founder of the Kirana Gharna, was an exponent of both Hindustani and Carnatic classical music.
9. Interviewer: Ustad, aap ka mazhab kya hai?
Ustad Badal Khan: Babu, na mein Hindu hnu, na Musalmaan. Mein toh sirf gawaiya hnu.
10. O sweet-song bird of the heavens, sing not thy entrancing melody, for it cuts me to my soul through and through.
11. Ahir bhairav, the beautiful raag at dawn, beckons us to wake from sweet slumber to a soulful morn.
12. Light streams in through the early misty morn and it is time to freshen the air with the Bharavi.
13. Here is the grand old man who saved Hindustani classical instrumental music from a broad extinction. Baba Allauddin Khan, pranam.
14. The recluse who never came out of her seclusion to delight the audience once she had shut herself in. Sursaraswati Annapurna Devi.
15. A talent lost to the world on account of mishandling. Shubho Shankar never could blossom into what Ma Annapurna had aspired for.
16. GOI must immediately award Ma Annapurna Devi with the 'Bharat Ratna' for she is the only one who has kept up the sanctity of Hindustani classical music.
17. Music cannot be forced out of yourself by mere practice. It has to be in your aesthetic self which you then must manifest.
18. Renounce all but music if you fancy yourself a Hindustani classical musician. Name, fame, money, desire, all must go.
19. You can fool the masses with melodic mediocrity masquerading as music but you cannot dupe the connoisseur. He remains the final judge.
20. Hindustani shastriya sangeet is not for name and fame or for money but for the realisation of God. Let the aspirants to it remember.
21. Too much voice-modulation and hyper-exhibition of the play of notes is musically barren and of a populist culture.
22. One must be born with the sense of artistic economy to become a sufficient exponent of Hindustani classical music.
23. Music to be soulful must emanate from a spiritual depth and not the throat well-rehearsed merely in melodic modulations. Meditate!
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