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Some people love money, and some people love other things. I love music, and we are all lovers.

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

Music reigns supreme. It does not need a visual prop. While listening to a number, do you enjoy the tune, or do you enjoy it because you imagine someone singing it? In fact, quite a few hits of mine are from films that no one has heard about. The songs still rule, though.

You can realise God as you progress in music; nothing in between.

Music should come from the heart. It should happen. That should be automatic, and if you labour on creating music, it will not have soul.

Any form of classical music is made for youth.

In India, most people are not aware or are unconcerned about copyright laws. This has proved disastrous for the music fraternity.

An album represents an artist or a band or a group of musicians at any given moment in time. You just produce the music that you feel good about and hope that the audience shows some interest in it.

I've tried to avoid the rock & roll highway and have taken the scenic route. I think all the guys have been more concerned with the music and the band's legacy than with the commercial aspects of life.

Rock music had its own constituency, its own steering wheel. It was beyond the control of the establishment, and we saw TV as the enemy.

I don't think we were anti-commercial. But we were anti-contrivance, and like Zeppelin, we found dignity through the music we were playing.

If there was such a thing as a typical English gentleman in rock music, then it was Jon Lord.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I'm always eager to make new music.

Blues is a very physical music.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.