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Remembering Kishori Amonkar: These Quotes Prove That She Was A Badass
- IWB Post
- April 4, 2017
Musical phenomenon, Kishori Amonkar, passed away on April 3rd in her Mumbai home.
Born on April 10, she was recognized as one of the foremost singers of Hindustani tradition. Also, there’s something you didn’t know about her. She was a badass woman for whom preserving tradition and her love for music meant everything.
Some of these quotes from a recent interview will show you what I mean:
“I’m very particular about following the regimen of ragas and timings prescribed in tradition. Because of evening concerts, I feel many of the beautiful ragas in our repertoire were simply not being heard by audiences.”
“Most people who talk about these things are simply bad-mouthing me because I speak my mind. At a concert in Kashmir, a top industrialist’s wife ordered paan while I was singing. I stopped and asked her if she thought I was singing at a kotha.”
“They don’t like it when I refuse to compromise on my principles… After that, they don’t come back. I prefer such majestic isolation to squandering a way of life and sadhana for money.”
” I get particularly upset when they call these competitions mahayudh and the likes. Music is meant to create peace, not war.”
“If a child keeps eating street food and refuses to eat nutritious stuff cooked at home should the mother keep ignoring this? At some point she will have to stop his pocket money for street food, won’t she? People will appreciate and inculcate better taste when we offer them good music.”
This interview first appeared here.
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