I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
Interpretation
Letting go of the past is essential for personal peace and growth.
In this quote, A. R. Rahman emphasizes the importance of moving on from past experiences and not being weighed down by emotional or mental baggage. By closing chapters in life and focusing on the present and future, one can find true peace and fulfillment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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.
In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.
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