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“The singing legend lives on her suprabathams (morning prayer songs) and w:bhajansbhajans.”

Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale in "The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English}, pages= 11-12
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“She incandesced as she sang. Her singing voice employed more than the process of phonation, more than the scope of the larynx.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Gopal Gandhi in his book of "A Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches", page=166
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“Indian music is oriented solely to the end of divine communication. If I have done something in this respect entirely due to the grace of the Almighty who has chosen my humble self as a tool.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Quoted in Ode to a Nightingale.[Sarada, M., The Complete Guide to Functional Writing in English, http://books.google.com/books?id=R--f51qlYrkC&pg=PA11, 1 October 2005, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 978-81-207-2923-0, 11–12]

“My greatest fear is giving performances. I feel I am responsible for the audience BUT I am also scared of them.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

“Sarojini Naidu repositioned her own title of Nightingale of India on to Subbalakshmi’s avian frame, it was because that daughter of Bengal saw the gift of song arriving and alighting on this daughter of India’s south, like a migratory bird from the collective genius of our music.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Gopal Gandhi in his book [Gandhi, Gopal, Of a Certain Age: Twenty Life Sketches, http://books.google.com/books?id=Inp4jPFUHUkC&pg=PA164, 2011, Penguin Books India, 978-0-670-08502-6, 166]
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“Even if Subbalakshmi merely recited the words of her songs without singing them, he would prefer to hear them than anybody else.”

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Mahatma Gandhi quoted here.[Johri, Meera, Greatness of Spirit: Profiles of Indian Magsaysay Award Winners, http://books.google.com/books?id=j1iegDJAYakC&pg=PA55, 2010, Rajpal & Sons, 978-81-7028-858-9, 58]
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“Oh! Who am I; a mere Prime Minister before the queen of song.”

M. S. Subbulakshmi

Once Pandit Jawhar Lal Nehru heard Subbalakshmi when he could not help exclaiming, as quoted here in "Greatness of Spirit: Profiles of Indian Magsaysay Award Winners", page=58.
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