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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.

A. R. Rahman

Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Hard Time Success Yourself
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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Crowd Divine Place Solitude Voice
I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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Big Myself Part
You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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Best Passion Possession Yourself
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn’t important, creative satisfaction is.
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Believe Creativity Happiness Important Money Myself People Satisfaction
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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Beyond Caste Language Myself Religion Restriction
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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Basic Drive End Guitar Motivational Song Theme
There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.
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Ego God Heart Oneself
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Believe Blessing God Myself Time
I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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Instrument Love Myself Perfection Voice
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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Dedication Fame Head Humble Important Life Money Passion Success Travel Yourself
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.
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Country Ideas Myself Personality Positive
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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Feeling Frame Himself Ideas Liberate Music
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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Goodness Myself Repetition Start Thinking Way
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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Believe Consume Fame Man Myself Soul Stardom
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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Age Culture Music Polite Soul Statement Touch Yourself
The search is more important than the destination.
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Destination Important Myself Search
In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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Admire Gold Growth Myself People
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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Classical Love Music Myself Play Togetherness
People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That’s Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
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Expectation Myself New People Time
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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Easy Fame Money Politics Purpose Success Thinking Time
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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Hope Myself Prediction Scope
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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Connection Dreams Music Myself Reason Separate Unity
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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Children Education Myself Play Teaching
Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
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Follow Original Voice
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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Design Disturb Drive Myself Sound
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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Herself Hide Mom Photograph

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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