Quotes from Kumar Sanu

Music should change. Technically, we have come a long way - matching up to the international standard. It is good.

Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that's good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now.

I have sung in many languages in my decades long career and Telugu is one of them.

I specially want to work for the poor children and want to provide them with education.

Everyone knows that Badshah is my big fan, but nobody knows about me being his biggest fan!

I made my first foray into acting with a Bengali film 'Gane Bhuban Bhariye Debo.'

People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors have social responsibility.

Singers put emotions into songs which the actors later replicate on screen. When I know that I can also present myself well on-screen, why not do that?

The film producers have to understand that melody is the base of Indian music - they have to come back to that. Else, we'll have short lived chart toppers which dim on public memory that moment the film if off screens.

I want to work for the people of Bengal.

I like to move with the times and that's why my songs are fresh.

I like the audience to be engaged with the numbers I am singing and do not repeat my songs at any of my concerts. There are thousands of songs that I have lent my voice to with so many other singers, so why bore my audience by singing the same songs?

I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.

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

Mainstream Bollywood music has fallen into some sort of a rut where melody, which was very important 'till the '90s, is out of favor.

The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing such songs.

I do a lot of shows worldwide and don't have to depend on acting to make money. I've been part of this industry for too long to consider that option.

The fact that you have contracted Covid-19 isn't an easy thing to deal with. I was anxious and scared too, initially. Since I was alone, the first few days were all the more difficult. I was following instructions given by doctors but somewhere I was worried given how the virus has taken many lives and the kind of damage it has done to others.

If LPs were replaced by cassettes and then audio cds and now digital media... That is inevitable. No point in lamenting.

If the media keeps playing a bad track 500 times a day for financial reason, obviously the common listener will only end up listening to such kind of music.

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?

My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia gang and around 20,000 more people were present. I sang in fear and danced too and luckily, they liked it.

I made it clear to myself at least 50 times that I am neither associated with any party nor do I have any transaction with any party. I have only one party, which is music party.

There was a time when melody was the most important feature in any song. But with time, music underwent a major transition.