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. RAHMANIn my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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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.
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In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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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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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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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 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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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
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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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No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
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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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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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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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The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.
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