Quotes by A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

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.

Artist

Bridges

Thinking

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Choices

Hate

Love And Hate

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you’re proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it’s boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

Ideas

People

Team

How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It’s not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he’s young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.

Epic

Guitar

Perfect

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.

Play

Thinking

Together

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Believe

Blessing

Particular

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.

Awards

Done

Mother

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

Exercise

Soul

Spiritual

I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

Given

Perfect

Voice

I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. “Oh I love that song.” And when things go fine, it’s good. So he started loving that song and that song was used quite a lot in the movie which is very granulated stuff on the guitar.

Couple

Guitar

Song

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Age

Art

Artist

Australia

Awards

Beautiful

Believe

Best Success

Blessing

Bored

Boring

Boys

Bridges

Choices

Commitment

Couple

Culture

Cutting

Different

Doe

Done

Ego

Epic

Exercise

Failing

Feels

Given

Giving

Guitar

Hate

Hatred

Heart

Honesty

Humble

Ideas

Input

Kids

Language

Looks

Love And Hate

Mind

Mlm

Monk

Mother

Motivation

Music

Music Is

Negative

No Regrets

Pain

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Quotes by A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

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.

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

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.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

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