Quotes About Artistry

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

Some musicians make and record music; other musicians play in a band... I just make and record music, and I don't feel a part of anything in any music business.

I've written a couple raps in my day, in my own music career, that people don't know a lot about.

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

To just be able to sing and show off the chops is kind of why I got into the music industry.

We know how fickle the music industry is and that you have to focus on the things you can control-writing songs and playing music.

The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.

One consistent good thing I can say about the music industry is that at least I can make music freely now, and I don't have to do it when I'm off of a nine to five shift or something.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

I've never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

I'm a musical genius.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

I would do a movie musical.