A. R. Rahman Quotes

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it's usually with yourself. It's usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you're doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you've already done.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

Pushing yourself and digging into something new, that's what being a musician is all about.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.