Jackie Shroff Quotes

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.

I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

I write music. I'm in a band.

My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

I am an inventor of music.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I only made one film with a score, and I hate it. I hate the score of that film. It's not coming from me. I had nothing to do with it.

I'm really just a frustrated violinist.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.

When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance forms. No one else is concentrating on making pure classical numbers.