Has the quality of Indian film music fallen from grace?

Certainly. What they call music today is not music at all. It is just a cacophony of sounds coming in from all over the world, sounds put together. Genuine Indian film music is struggling to live and there is hardly anyone to save it. You will remember my words when you tell your children and grand children about great Indian music and they will wonder how these crazy sounds could be called genuine or great music. I pray to Allah to save music before it completely dies.
Naushad, music director

Music is the only "item" that is important in films today. Quality has no place but we, at Tips, still try to come up to the best standards possible and succeed most of the time. The problem is that people have no time to care for music. Music was considered some divine once. Music is a maddening mixture of sounds that will drive the strongest minds mad, give the soul satisfaction. If we believe it is not music at all.
Ramesh Taurani, Tips

The music directors today don’t respect music. The problem is that they don’t create or respect music and you cannot come up with anything good if you don’t respect that something almost divine. I spend most of my time grieving over the gradual death of great music.
Khayyam, music director

Music is mostly for the young and the young Indian today doesn’t care for all that peti-baja and shehnai-behnai of classical Indian music. They only love the kind of music that makes their limbs and nerves tingle. But I have not lost hope. A time will come when music will find its glory back. Music is a creation of God. He will not let it die easily.
Saawan Kumar, producer, director, lyricist