'It's amazing how many different kinds of patriotic songs we have in our country.'
'I tell the next generation of singers to take a leaf out of Lataji's book.' 'Be it Kavita or Alka, every time I give a song to a singer, I tell them, 'Dhyaan se suno, listen attentively, phir socho, Lataji isse kaise gaati'.'
'Whatever we are today, if playback singers are here even today, and that includes me, it is because of Didi.'
'I just offered her a rose. She said thank you. And I took a photograph with her.'
'The key to her cupboard is with me. People have been requesting me to open it.' 'I've made it very clear. Nothing in her room or cupboard will be touched as long as I am there.'
'I just took the Almighty's name and plunged into it.'
Singer Hariharan worked quite a few times with santoor player Shiv Kumar Sharma, who passed into the ages on May 10, and flautist Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
Uttam Ghosh pays tribute to the Incomparable Legend, Lataji Mangeshkar, Bharat Ratna.
Biswajit, movie heart-throb of the 1960s, remembers The Legend.
Mohammad Rafi had a powerful range that could accommodate anything from the sublime O duniya ke rakhwale for Bharat Bhushan in Baiju Bawra to the eccentric Badan pe sitare lapete huye for Shammi Kapoor in Prince.
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'Many have tried to imitate her. They've fallen flat on their faces.'
Javed Akhtar is among the millions who believe that Lata Mangeshkar's voice is therapeutic.
Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi made a lightning visit to Mumbai on Sunday evening to pay homage to Lata Mangeshkar.
'The source of our music, the very notes of music itself have fallen silent.'
Lata Mangeshkar has never tasted alcohol. Yet, she has sung some extraordinary songs about intoxication.
'His Dil deewana in Maine Pyar Kiya came to me at a time when I was thinking of retirement.'
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'She was not just a fan; she knew the game and could differentiate between a good cricketer and a great cricketer.'
'Wonder of wonders we finished the Janmashtami song and can you believe it within the next few days it so happened that Dilip Sahab walked into my life, gazed into my eyes and asked my grandmother and mother for my Hand in marriage.'
'Gulzarsaab's words are lucid and singing them is like painting a picture.'
There is no conclusive clarity on how many songs Lataji has actually sung.
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'In just a couple of years, she proved herself the best cook in the Mangeshkar family.'
Theek nahi lagta, a song written by Lata Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar, was believed to have been lost.
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'I don't think my troubles would have happened if she was with me. I kind of lost my way after she was gone,' Sanjay Dutt once told Subhash K Jha about his mother Nargis, the legendary actress who passed away this day 41 years ago.
'For many years, we didn't speak. But then family is family. We made up.'
'Mere Haathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiya Hain showed how skillfully Shiv-Hari could weave into the commercial idiom.'
'This birthday, I wish all his troubles to vanish.'
'It's time we stop thinking only about ourselves.' 'Whether it is love or wealth, give generously.'
'I am writing two films. Something very different from Rocky Aur Rani.' 'I know I'm back on the set next year.'
'One cannot play a Goddess as deep and resonant as Sita Maa without being affected.'
'When she called to ask why I was depressed, my depression flew out of the window.'
Not one to mince words, Asha Bhosle is expected to drop a few hot potatoes, which may embarrass her illustrious Mangeshkar family.
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu read out an obituary reference after which MPs stood as a mark of respect to the memory of the departed.
'I would like to feel that he had a special place in his heart for me as I do in my heart to this day.'
Bollywood has often celebrated Lord Krishna with lovely songs over the years. On the festive occasion of Janmashtami, Subhash K Jha picks his favourite Kanha songs.
The Lata Mangeshkar rendered title song in Karan Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham will be re-structured as an orchestral item by American composer Kris Bowers to be part of the narrative.
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