Ustad Bismillah Khan Quotes
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
-
If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
-
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
-
I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
-
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
-
I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
-
I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
-
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
-
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
-
They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
-
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
-
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
-
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
-
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
-
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
-
No one conquers who doesn't fight.
-
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
