Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn’t important, creative satisfaction is.
A. R. RAHMANThe more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done.
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
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I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it’s Indian or it’s Western.
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The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done.
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The more you know the less you talk.
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Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
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I don’t even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she’s done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.
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I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
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The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.
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There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he’d get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there’s of course the lullaby which Dido sang, “If I Rise.” And then there’s this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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