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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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Feeling Frame Himself Ideas Liberate Music
Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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Failure Language Music Myself People Transportation
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
I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
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Exercise Music Myself Soul Spiritual
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
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
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 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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Different Emotion Hate Jealous Music Myself Negative World
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 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
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Believe Blessing God Myself Time
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
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
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
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
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
The search is more important than the destination.
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Destination Important Myself Search
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
No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
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Boredom Regret Time
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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Boredom Discover Excitement Interest Myself People
I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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Big Myself Part
Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.
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Best Disappointment Greatness Hard Time Success Yourself
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
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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Caste Different Language Mom Music
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
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
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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