Thanks to my friend Subbu, I had the opportunity to listen to Illayaraja speak for a couple of minutes (in telugu) in an interview with TV9 on his birthday (Jun 3, Gemini, ooohooo)
Around 2:50 minutes in the video, he says the following abridged translation
I don’t know much in music, if I knew then I would have been sitting at home and be content, I am trying to figure it out 🙂 talk of modesty!
Very interesting way to approach how something gets tuned, he says, if the situation is described to me and I am trying to compose music, if raaga dhanyasi comes to mind that is what i will try to compose in, can i say, no dhanyasi, you go away, i want this other raag? No!
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