“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.”

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

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.

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working.

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.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn’t important, creative satisfaction is.

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.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That’s Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

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.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

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.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

The more you know the less you talk.

I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.