Kumar Sanu

“It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept. What about the other three artists?”

“So, we should work on imparting quality education and make our children responsible citizens. For that, we should also come forward and do our bit. So I want to open an academic institute for the underprivileged children, where they can acquire knowledge and become responsible citizens.”

“After following the footsteps of the greats, each singer must carve out his own identity, else he will perish.”

“Jaan would send me songs and ask me what I thought about his singing. I have always encouraged him, and I always will. He asked me to call a few industry people who I know. I called Mukesh Bhattji, Ramesh Tauraniji and a few others, and Jaan went to meet them, but now it's up to them if they want to give him work.”

“My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.”

“'Hum-Tum' is my tribute to Kishor Kumar as he is my idol.”

“If I get good Bollywood offers, I would love to act.”

“I can play character roles for sure.”

“Hyderabad has always been special for me.”

“If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.”

“Every good singer is a good actor.”

“One should not promote lyrics that are vulgar.”

“When it comes to the 1990s songs, we all can recall them by their beautiful poetry, melody and how soothing they were to the soul.”

“Bollywood songs are losing their poetic value.”

“The audience will always be receptive to good music if they are provided that.”

“I don't have any ambition to become minister.”

“I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.”

“All great singers copy someone else in the initial stages.”

“I have sung 14,000 songs in 22 languages.”

“It's important to have an open mind while singing.”