For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
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. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
I wouldn’t let a biopic be made on me. That’s because I don’t believe in them. I don’t like them. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
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. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
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. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
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. Lata Mangeshkar Read Quote
