Gulzar

"Music has a natural place in our lives. Right from the shloka you recite in your morning puja and the milkman who comes whistling on his cycle, to the fakir singing as he begs for alms and your mother humming around the kitchen...Music fills our spaces naturally. It will always be dear to us."

"A good storyteller is the conscience-keeper."

"Words do not have teeth, still they bite; and once they bite, the wounds never heal."

"When you face your fear, you become familiar with it, and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear."

"Lata was beyond words. She was a miracle that will happen never again."

"If he says that I am the voice of the century, then I would say that he is the writer of the century."