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.
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.
More A. R. Rahman Quotes
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I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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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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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 idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That’s Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
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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 want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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The search is more important than the destination.
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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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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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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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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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