I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to bec...
Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's almost human. It sounds sexy. I just used it as an effect. It wasn't because I was not able to sing; I'm not a great singer, but I had some hits as a singer,...
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' S...
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cas...
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang to...
Alvy Singer: It's mental masturbation! Annie Hall: And you would know all about THAT, wouldn't you? Alvy Singer: Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love.
Alvy Singer: I'm so tired of spending evenings making fake insights with people who work for "Dysentery." Robin: "Commentary." Alvy Singer: Oh really? I had heard that "Commentary" and "Dissent" had merged and formed "Dysentery."
Annie Hall: Oh, you see an analyst? Alvy Singer: Yeah, just for fifteen years. Annie Hall: Fifteen years? Alvy Singer: Yeah, I'm gonna give him one more year, and then I'm goin' to Lourdes.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
One of the things I love about opera is that it's the combination of all the art forms, and certainly the world of fashion is a big deal in it.
There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
