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

A. R. Rahman

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A. R. Rahman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 6
Composer
Entrepreneur
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Multi-Instrumentalist
Music Director
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Madras
Allahrakka Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman
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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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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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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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I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise
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Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment
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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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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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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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If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.
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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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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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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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People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
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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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What is good is what it's going to lead to, like the song Jai Ho. If good numbers are going to come in the future, it bodes well for a lot of things. But then, who's going to maintain that. That's the question. So far they could never lead to an Indian song, like a normal film song in this that they can relate to.
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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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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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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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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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