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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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Believe Creativity Happiness Important Money Myself People Satisfaction
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
If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working.
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Healing Music Myself Thinking Wake Up Work
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
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
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
All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
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Choice Hate Life Love Myself
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 believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Believe Blessing God Myself Time
I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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Big Myself Part
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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Comment Movie Myself Reading Scripture
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
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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Appearance Art Creation Himself
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.
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Branch Children Imagination Music
You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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Best Passion Possession Yourself
The more you know the less you talk.
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Talk Wisdom Yourself
Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Hard Time Success Yourself
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
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
No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
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Boredom Regret Time
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
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
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
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
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
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Commitment Honesty Reflection Yourself
Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I’m traveling. I watch movies without sound.
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Intention Movie Myself Silence Sound Travel Watch
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

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