Lata Mangeshkar Best Quotes

Lata Mangeshkar Best Quotes : Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was India’s most popular and respected singer, whose tenure of six decades is full of achievements. Although Lata Ji had sung film and non-film songs in more than thirty languages, She has been recognized as a playback singer in Indian cinema. Lata Mangeshkar died at the age of 92. She breathed his last at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. Via this special post we pay tribute to Bharat Ratna and Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar Ji.

Lata Mangeshkar Best Quotes

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

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

3.“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.”

4.“I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.”

5.“One has to be fully committed to one’s career. Otherwise, there’s no point.”

6.“I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.”

7.“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.”

8.”I have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.”

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

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

11.“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.”

12.“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.”

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

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

15.”To be honest, I started singing when I was five, but I don’t think I’ve worked as hard as many other people.”

16.”I have decided that I won’t take up assignments that don’t interest me.”

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

18.”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.”

19.” I don’t wish to be Lata Mangeshkar in next life …..being her is only possible in one birth only”

20.”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.”

Famous Quotes By Lata Mangeshkar

21.“As a singer, you have to keep practising day per day”

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

23.“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.”

24.“People should be blessed in life with friends who are both ‘Mirrors & Shadows’! Mirrors don’t lie & shadows never leave.”

25.“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.”

26.“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.”

27.”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.”

28.”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.”

29.”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.”

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