105 Quotes by Gulzar

A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.

I've always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.

I wasn't happy with Tagore's own translations in English. Maybe he was, but I wasn't, so I took it upon myself to do it.

Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.

Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a few. There were many poets.

Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.

My songs are not angry or bitter, because I am not bitter. I'm hopeful, and as an artist I have to be, not just for my future or for the future of my children but for the whole world.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.