Sonali Bendre Quotes

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Music inspires me.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.