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.
A. R. RAHMANThat’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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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
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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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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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I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working.
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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.
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While 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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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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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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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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