“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,

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