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.
A. R. RAHMANMy 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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No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
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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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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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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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You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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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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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
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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 wanted to be part of something bigger.
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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 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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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 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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Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
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I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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