16 Awesome Quotes From Anoushka Shankar

16 Awesome Quotes From Anoushka Shankare

The lockdown, in general, left me with a sense of needing to become more independent and instead of being intimidated, I decided to do the engineering on some of my new releases.

— Anoushka Shankar

So many silly things happen with a baby around. We laugh more than we expected.

— Anoushka Shankar

My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.

— Anoushka Shankar

I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.

— Anoushka Shankar

I have been in public for a long time, so the camera was never an issue for me. I am very comfortable in front of a camera.

— Anoushka Shankar

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician first.

— Anoushka Shankar

I just felt drawn towards the kind of music that really needed a strong female presence female writers, female producers, female figures and that just kind of unfolded on its own.

— Anoushka Shankar

I realised how rarely women are involved in all aspects of the music making, how rarely I've worked with female engineers. That became something that I started looking at as well. How many women can I bring into the project across the board.

— Anoushka Shankar

The kind of love people in India shower on me is overwhelming.

— Anoushka Shankar

Usually, I really only look at any one particular album at a time when I'm making it. I've never really sat and looked at the journey through all of my albums to see if I could find a thread through them.

— Anoushka Shankar

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar

I lived with my teacher and he was my father and he practiced every day so I practiced every day and we practiced every day together.

— Anoushka Shankar

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.

— Anoushka Shankar

Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.

— Anoushka Shankar

My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.

— Anoushka Shankar

Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical album I've released in over a decade. So it really felt like a kind-of coming back to my roots.

— Anoushka Shankar

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