Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I’m traveling. I watch movies without sound.
A. R. RAHMANThe more you know the less you talk.
More A. R. Rahman Quotes
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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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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
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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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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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Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.
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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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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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I wanted to be part of something bigger.
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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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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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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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In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
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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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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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The search is more important than the destination.
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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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Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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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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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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I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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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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The more you know the less you talk.
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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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Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
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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 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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