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. RAHMANIn my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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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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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working.
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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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The search is more important than the destination.
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I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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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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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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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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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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