Hariprasad Chaurasia: Flute

Hariprasad Chaurasia is Indian bansuri player. Explore interesting quotes on flute.
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“The flute is the symbol of spiritual call, the call of divine love.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

In Discography, 19 December 2013, Official website Hariprasad Chaurasia http://www.hariprasadchaurasia.com/discography-3/,

Love

“I almost never go to temples. I don't find the time. I'm not religious in that sense. My religion is my music. Lord Krishna is my God. Whenever I want to pray, whenever I want to meditate and concentrate, I take my flute. I can feel God. The feeling is difficult to explain, but I feel lost when I'm in it.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Hinduism Today

God , Religion , Music , Feeling

“In my past there is Krishna. In my dreams I dream of recreating a huge college of flutists, a veritable Vrindaban in which students will arrive to learn and study with satchels full of flutes, live in mud huts, eat at a common langar. A modern Vrindaban from which a thousand flutes will ring out each day. For what else is there? When my breath is gone and I can not play anymore what do I leave behind? Some dedicated students! When you leave nothing behind, you cry at the point of death, but I still dream, I dare to dream that through my students my flute will be left behind as the memory of Krishna.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

In "Discography".

Death , Dreams , Study , Learning

“Flute is an instrument which gives you more power as you play. It's like the breathing exercises in yoga. I'm able to increase my lung power by playing more. But because of travelling I don't get time to practice”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in Hinduism Today

Travel , Exercises , Time

“My father was a wrestler and though everyone liked music in the family, it was a taboo to even think of a musical career. I used to wrestle to keep him happy. When I was about nine years old, I started learning vocal music from Pandit Rajaram, secretly! At the age of fifteen, I heard the flute for the first time on Allahabad radio. It was as if I was being transported to heaven. The flautist was Pt. Bholanath and that was the major turning point in my life. Soon after, while I was still in my teens I got an offer to work as a staff artist on Cuttack radio in Odisha/ and I accepted. It was then that my father found out that I was a musician. It was a major shock for him.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

On Parents and Passion.
Melodies of Brindavan: Pandit Hariprasad Chourasia

Life , Age , Family , Music

“In my past there is Krishna. In my dreams I dream of recreating a huge college of flutists, a veritable Vrindaban in which students will arrive to learn and study with satchels full of flutes, live in mud huts, eat at a common langar.”

Hariprasad Chaurasia

A modern Vrindaban from which a thousand flutes will ring out each day. For what else is there? When my breath is gone and I can not play anymore what do I leave behind? Some dedicated students! When you leave nothing behind, you cry at the point of death, but I still dream, I dare to dream that through my students my flute will be left behind as the memory of Krishna.
In "Discography".

Past , Study , Dreams , Learning