Ilaiyaraaja Quotes

Ilaiyaraaja

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 2, 1943

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

Ilaiyaraaja

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

Ilaiyaraaja

For musical compositions to reach a high level and to derive from spontaneity, of course, one has to do the necessary steps to learn the rules and regulations of composing high quality music.

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A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

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The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.

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You may go to the temple for mental peace. But you may be distracted there and forget the purpose of your visit. But this does not happen when you hear good music.

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To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

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Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

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Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

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Right from the 17th century, composers who have taken up music as their means of livelihood went through a hard time financially. They were paid only for commissioned works and public performances. And, when their music became famous, orchestras in other cities and countries would pay a small amount to copy the music.

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Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

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For me, my music is part of me, and which is why it seems second nature, and my compositions are instinctive.

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When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, 'Hey, what is this!' or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.

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Sometimes, entire songs are ready in just about five minutes.

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

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I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

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Only I hold the right to all my songs.

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Music and religion keep me young.

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Can someone do music for 24 hours at a stretch and never get tired? It's me. Because I don't 'work'. I enjoy what am doing. It's not like a regular job.

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Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

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