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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
A. R. Rahman
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A. R. Rahman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 6
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Entrepreneur
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Film Score Composer
Multi-Instrumentalist
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Madras
Allahrakka Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman
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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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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.
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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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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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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.
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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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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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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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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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The search is more important than the destination
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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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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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I've been doing music for many years and after a point what is the motivation that drives you to compose and to do stuff? I did this song for the U.N., a fighting for poverty anthem. That's when I realized that I could do a foundation. And when I started the foundation, it was basically to fight poverty and to help - that kind of stuff.
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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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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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It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.
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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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Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
A. R. Rahman
Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
A. R. Rahman
