A. R. Rahman Quotes

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

I know music is subjective.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

I just don't believe in the old definition that a fan of music is: I find a band, I listen to all of it and I pretend to like stuff that I don't like. Now if I don't like it, I just go, 'I don't like this.' It's way fairer.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.

I don't do all the things I say I do in my songs, but nobody does.

If you're going to be transparent, you're going to have to let the music come that wants to come.

As soon as me and Willow started releasing music, that's one thing that the whole world took away is, okay, they unlocked another step of honesty. If these guys can be honest about everything, then we can be more honest.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.