A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
Interpretation
Creating music for a film requires a commitment to excellence from the musician.
A. R. Rahman emphasizes the importance of integrity and dedication in the artistic process of film scoring. He suggests that a musician's ethical compass compels them to create a soundtrack that matches the quality and depth of a good film, acknowledging the unique relationship between the visual narrative and its accompanying music.
In practice
During a film screening event, the importance of a powerful score can be highlighted using this quote.
I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isnβt about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.
My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
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