“Growing up, any time I would sit down with my grandfather to learn or ...” — Sid Sriram Quote

“Growing up, any time I would sit down with my grandfather to learn or talk about Carnatic music, he would bring up G. N. Balasubramaniam. Listening to the recordings he would play me, I was dazzled by GNB's voice and how he was able to execute ideas that I could barely wrap my head around.”

“My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.”

“Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.”

“Thanks to my family and guru. They were quite confident that I could do it and think about music as a full-time career.”

“From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.”

“When I was 11, I decided that music was what I wanted to pursue as a career.”

“It's a tough world. One moment, you're the hottest thing; there aren't enough hours in the day - you can barely catch your breath. The next moment, it's all about how many Instagram followers you have.”

“I started my career inactive sometimes and barely played.”

“In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all.”

“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”

“The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.”

“I'm not a flopper. I hate when people say I'm a flopper. I don't flop. You never see me flying all over the floor. None of that. I barely fall down in games.”