The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.
A. R. RAHMANYour inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
More A. R. Rahman Quotes
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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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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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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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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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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 like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
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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 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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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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