Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I usually think in terms of music.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

I'm an interpreter of music.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

I didn't have to apply my mind to the aspects of scales and playing, and instead, I focused on creativity. I wrote music, but I didn't 'practice' it. So yeah, you can always get better and improve your technique, but hopefully, that comes through being a musician and composing and being a creative individual.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands. In this case, I felt like it would benefit from me singing, and I wanted it to have that sound.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.