A. R. Rahman Quotes

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

I don't intend to stop making music.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.