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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

Ali Akbar Khan

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Ali Akbar Khan
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 14
Died: 2009
Died: June 19
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