Quotes from Asha Bhosle

Music is in all our minds and hearts and we are all free to sing anywhere we choose.

I cannot stand in one place and sing for three hours. By nature, I like to make things lively.

Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.

With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.

Singing is my first love.

I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.

I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.

Performing in each city is a different experience. But somehow, New York is unique. It is like performing in the entertainment capital of the world.

I love to travel.

I want to empower girls so that they are treated as equals to the boys in the country.

I hate a sleepy, nonresponsive, and silent audience because it fails to excite me as a performer.

People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents.

The truth is, I've got a naturally outgoing nature, and I still have a great love for experimentation.

I'm mentally agile.

You cannot enter a studio and just start crooning before the mike. It is essential to understand the mind of the composer, mood of the song, and meter of the tune.

I performed six concerts all over the U.S.S.R. during the time of Gorbachev. The entire audience was Russian. There were no Indians. Period. The audience turned out in large numbers and gave standing ovations to all my songs. They knew each song. That was an amazing experience.

I constantly need something new and challenging.

As a person and as a singer, I love to try something new. I like challenges.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

When you don't know how to pronounce words, when you don't know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a song with feeling?

We have to put expressions in a song when we sing it.

Only when you know the nuances of a language can you sing a song well.

My songs would be nothing had it not been for my father. I follow his footsteps.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.