Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Music is organized sound.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

Music is the universal language.

I privilege the music over the lyrics.

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Music is the silence between the notes.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

All music is beautiful.