Ragas Music Quotes & Sayings

Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together. — Ustad Bismillah Khan

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do. — Jonas Salk

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice. — Ravi Shankar

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music.. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward. — James Costos

God promotes you based on your heart not based on your head. Your head might be right but if your heart is not right you will mess up the promotion. Men looks at the outward but God looks at the heart. From the heart flows the issues of life. — Patience Johnson

One of the things to be learnt about spying is that the least likely is the most probable.

--Sir Dick White, Head of MI6, 1956-1968 — John Knoerle

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation. — Clare Boothe Luce

For example, I came to my exams very well prepared, but if the professor were suddenly to ask me, "Do you know from what works I derive the authority on the basis of which I teach this subject in this university?" I wouldn't know what to answer. But the others knew. So I moved among them fearful of saying and doing the wrong things. — Elena Ferrante