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• ‟ Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

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• ‟ Music has the power to divert the violent minds.

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• ‟ I would like to inform the public that I have entered into a licensing agreement with Agi Music for manufacturing and distributing my songs in any format and have also granted the license to distribute my songs on digital and new media formats, including mobile ringtones, caller tunes, and online downloads.

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• ‟ To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

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• ‟ Music happens. It cannot be made.

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• ‟ My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

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• ‟ Music is a continuous process. You evolve with every song.

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• ‟ Some people love money, and some people love other things. I love music, and we are all lovers.

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• ‟ Music is nothing but sound, and there is no place for value judgement among various sounds.

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• ‟ To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels.

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• ‟ Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

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• ‟ I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

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• ‟ For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.

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• ‟ For musical compositions to reach a high level and to derive from spontaneity, of course, one has to do the necessary steps to learn the rules and regulations of composing high quality music.

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• ‟ Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

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• ‟ Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

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• ‟ Music and religion keep me young.

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• ‟ My music is religion, and my religion is music. They are one.

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• ‟ Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.

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• ‟ The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.

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• ‟ Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice - for 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Sindhu Bhairavi,' and 'Rudraveena.'

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• ‟ Can someone do music for 24 hours at a stretch and never get tired? It's me. Because I don't 'work'. I enjoy what am doing. It's not like a regular job.

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• ‟ People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

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• ‟ I had difficulty in grasping how music was made for films. It was a huge learning curve and the toughest phase of my life.

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• ‟ I truly believe that music or art, in general, is the only thing that can unify a world that is plagued by war and violence, and I believe that it should be taken to more people.

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• ‟ Government should take necessary steps to add music into school syllabus and impart knowledge to the students.

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• ‟ The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.

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• ‟ Music is the only medium by which everyone is connected in the world.

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• ‟ I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

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• ‟ Music has done much more for me than I have for music.

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• ‟ Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

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• ‟ Many ask me why I work with debutants, but I always tell them that there's space for every one in the industry, and if my music helps him, then I'm glad to be of some help. I will never say no to deserving newcomers.

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• ‟ Right from the 17th century, composers who have taken up music as their means of livelihood went through a hard time financially. They were paid only for commissioned works and public performances. And, when their music became famous, orchestras in other cities and countries would pay a small amount to copy the music.

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• ‟ In my early years, I would be in the studio till 11 P.M. Come home, have bath and dinner, and write music till 2 A.M. I would wake up by 4, sit down to do my music, and be at the studio at sharp 7 A.M.

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• ‟ Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.

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• ‟ Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.

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• ‟ My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.

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• ‟ Music reigns supreme. It does not need a visual prop. While listening to a number, do you enjoy the tune, or do you enjoy it because you imagine someone singing it? In fact, quite a few hits of mine are from films that no one has heard about. The songs still rule, though.

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• ‟ Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

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• ‟ When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

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