“People don't want to listen to an imitation. If they want to listen to my style, they will go and buy my records.”

—  Begum Akhtar

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