Sukhwinder Singh Quotes

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces.

I have done songs here and there. But I have never scored a film. That is something I would like to do at some point.

Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.

I don't claim to be a composer, and I realize my approach is pretty dopey in comparison to the true masters of score work. That said, if someone thinks what I do specifically would work for their film, then, of course, let's see what we can do.

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

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I have a lot of songs, and I'd love to do some more recording with the band.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I was always trying to be a quote, unquote, film composer.

Most films don't have a budget for a background score, but it is the toughest job to do. We work like donkeys. And usually we get only around a month to do a score.

I always really wanted to do film scoring, largely because I hate writing lyrics. I just won't do it. I need help with the words.

Music for films allow a great deal of diversity and the more you widen your skills, the better you become.

I had sittings with Akshay Kumar during 'Airlift.' People who are passionate about music get involved in the making of the songs. I used to have a good interaction with him.

I don't like to surprise anyone with the music I compose for a film. That way, there is less trouble later on.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

I'm a composer, man.

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.