I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
A. R. RAHMANWhile other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
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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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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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That’s a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
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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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There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
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In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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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 music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.
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I think I would like to discover a new root where people don’t get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That’d be interesting.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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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 believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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