All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
Interpretation
Choosing love over hate leads to fulfillment and presence in life.
This quote by A. R. Rahman emphasizes the conscious choice between hate and love that individuals face throughout their lives. By selecting love as a guiding principle, one can cultivate joy and happiness, ultimately leading to a meaningful existence.
In practice
During a speech on kindness at an awards ceremony, one might use this quote to inspire the audience to choose compassion.
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 isnβt 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.
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.
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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