Top 40 A. R. Rahman Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment.”

— A. R. Rahman

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

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3. “The search is more important than the destination.”

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4. “Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.”

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5. “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.”

— A. R. Rahman

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6. “No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.”

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7. “When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.”

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8. “You can’t be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”

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9. “I wanted to be part of something bigger.”

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10. “Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”

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11. “Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.”

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12. “Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

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

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

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17. “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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18. “In my case dust has become Gold.”

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “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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22. “I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “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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26. “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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27. “I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.”

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “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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31. “Certain things are done intentionally opposite – like there’s no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.”

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32. “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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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I’m doing which is somewhere I’ve wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.”

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40. “That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido’s words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that’s the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.”

— A. R. Rahman