“If you practise for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru,” he once said. “But you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist.”
I remember seeing him years ago - at the Academy of Music, I believe. I remember enjoying the concert immensely, but details are otherwise strangely vague. I must have been high as a kite that night.
My all time favorite Indian classical musician. I've seen him many times in concert. He was always very deep into the music, and carried us with him. Occasionally puckish, always sincere.
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