A. R. Rahman Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Ideas, Music Is, Feels

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• 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, Men, Soul

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• 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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  Dream, People, World

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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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  Cutting, Silence, Sound

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

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  Philosophy, Heart, Knowledgeable Person

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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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  Children, Wild Imagination, Branches

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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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  Music, Thinking, Done

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• People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

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  People, Something New, Edges

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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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  Artist, Thinking, Bridges

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• In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

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  Dust, Gold, Cases

  "A R Rahman: In Tune With Life". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. September 30, 2002.

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• I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.

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  Song, Play, Band

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• I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and just do it like a job, then it's going to be feel that way. That's my theory of doing a movie.

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  Jobs, People, London

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• Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

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  New Year, Years, India

  FaceBook post by A.R. Rahman from Jan 22, 2015

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• It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].

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  Girl, Emotional, Two

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• Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie.

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  Reading, Cutting, Mind

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• I basically 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. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.

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  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Composer A.R. Rahman Interview 127 HOURS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 28, 2010.

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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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  Country, Inspiration, Giving

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• We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.

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  Beautiful, Kids, Boys

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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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  Motivation, Guitar, Three

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• 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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  Looks, World, Scope

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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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  Design, Sound, Sound Design

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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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  Thinking, Roots, Bored

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• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.

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  Thinking, Names, Listening

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• I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.

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  Christian, Team, New Experiences

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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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  Together, Musician, Culture

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