Top 100 Quotes About Rahman
#1. The definition of Ar-Rahman: The fact that we only take from Allah and He only gives; we never thank but He still gives; we rarely remember Him but He still increases in love for us.
Nouman Ali Khan
#2. Now AR Rahman app for music lovers
Anonymous
#3. A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
Kailash Kher
#4. When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable.
Mohammed Rafi
#5. Some of the toughest ayaat in the Quran have Allah's name "ar-Rahman" in them to make it clear that just because Allah is the Most Merciful, it doesn't mean He's not going to carry out justice.
Nouman Ali Khan
#7. This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres and the Crusades. - by Arab League Secretary General Abdul Rahman Azzam
Sol Stern
#8. I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.
Sivamani
#9. You can never stop thinking when you have passion in your work.
Afdholul Rahman
#11. Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.
Zia Haider Rahman
#12. For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
A.R. Rahman
#13. I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
A.R. Rahman
#14. Afghanistan's barren, ragged desolation moaned a long dirge of ancient wonder, the earth's broken features ready to receive fallen horsemen, the lost traveller, and all the butchered tribes.
Zia Haider Rahman
#15. Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#16. ...practicing or teaching business administration can, inshallah, essentially become a profession that is full of righteous acts on the part of the believer if a person follows the rights, commands, and limits established in Islam.
Mohammad Rahman
#17. Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
A.R. Rahman
#18. The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
A.R. Rahman
#20. All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#21. People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
A.R. Rahman
#22. We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
Ziaur Rahman
#23. I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
A.R. Rahman
#26. It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
A.R. Rahman
#27. Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#28. Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.
A.R. Rahman
#29. How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen?
Zia Haider Rahman
#30. I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.
A.R. Rahman
#31. In your imagination, nothing is impossible
Raisa Rahman
#32. I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
A.R. Rahman
#33. Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
A.R. Rahman
#34. There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.
A.R. Rahman
#35. Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
Rahman Baba
#36. I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
A.R. Rahman
#37. destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul.
Zia Haider Rahman
#38. My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq ... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
A.R. Rahman
#39. All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else - in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature - in a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, and not just metaphorically but literally.
Fazlur Rahman
#40. I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
A.R. Rahman
#41. Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
A.R. Rahman
#42. Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
A.R. Rahman
#43. It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on something. Then later, if he likes something, I put it even more perfectly. I tweak stuff. So this happened for 3 or 4 weeks and the music was done.
A.R. Rahman
#44. So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.
A.R. Rahman
#45. He went to America, months ago!
America!
Yes - America.
Is that east or west?
West.
People travel east, my boy - from the east you get wheat and cloth and every other good thing. What ever made our Hammad go west? Didn't anyone offer him directions? Didn't he ask anyone?
Abdul Rahman Munif
#46. Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
A.R. Rahman
#47. Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
A.R. Rahman
#48. These are the Rad (?) instruments that are dying out in India. So, it's going well and I think now we are increasing the number of kids we have taught and of course we are helping out with other things too. It's based in India now. [The idea is to] perfect it in one place and then we'll expand.
A.R. Rahman
#49. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India ... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
A.R. Rahman
#50. When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?
Zia Haider Rahman
#51. This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,
between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values alive
Fazlur Rahman
#52. All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
A.R. Rahman
#53. I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
A.R. Rahman
#55. My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.
A.R. Rahman
#56. I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
A.R. Rahman
#57. I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
A.R. Rahman
#58. Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they're just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you.
Zia Haider Rahman
#59. At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
Ziaur Rahman
#61. The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
A.R. Rahman
#62. Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
A.R. Rahman
#63. He, like so many of them, came from that breed of international development experts unsparing in its love for all humanity but having no interest in people.
Zia Haider Rahman
#64. I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
A.R. Rahman
#65. Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
A.R. Rahman
#66. If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A.R. Rahman
#67. We're not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.
Zia Haider Rahman
#68. While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
A.R. Rahman
#70. The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A.R. Rahman
#71. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199
Shamus Rahman Khan
#72. The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
A.R. Rahman
#73. I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A.R. Rahman
#74. 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.R. Rahman
#75. My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
A.R. Rahman
#76. The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.
Fazlur Rahman
#77. That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
A.R. Rahman
#78. If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A.R. Rahman
#79. You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
A.R. Rahman
#80. Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
A.R. Rahman
#81. I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
A.R. Rahman
#82. There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.
A.R. Rahman
#83. The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A.R. Rahman
#84. When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
#86. Afghanistan doesn't have the oil of the Khazars, he said, and we're not ready to prostitute our women like the Thais. Unlike the Westerner's, ours is not a spiritual poverty but a material one. When our needs in that area are met, we will not have the dilemma or crisis of Western man.
Zia Haider Rahman
#87. Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
A.R. Rahman
#88. I am as impressed by honesty as anyone, but when there is a hint that a man is taking me into his confidence, my first instinct is to suspect him. Am I to be flattered? And is he about to break another's confidence?
Zia Haider Rahman
#89. A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
A.R. Rahman
#90. In the old days people never bothered about what others did, so long as they were free to do what they liked themselves. Today, one cannot sneeze without being corrected, let alone enjoy oneself. That's what politics have done to our society
Tunku Abdul Rahman
#91. Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?
Zia Haider Rahman
#92. If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you ... then, I guess the music is working.
A.R. Rahman
#93. I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.
A.R. Rahman
#95. The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of decay of a community.
Fazlur Rahman
#96. The Prophet had both perfection of features and perfection of manners. The impression of them on people can be deduced by the bliss that overwhelmed their hearts and filled them with dignity.
Safiur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri
#97. I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
A.R. Rahman
#98. My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.
A.R. Rahman
#99. It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.
A.R. Rahman
#100. That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.
A.R. Rahman
