Quotes About Creativity

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

According to me, one composer should do one film.

Mithoon is a composer who really likes to work a lot on his songs. He is like a small kid in the studio.

I wanted to be a composer.

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

You've got to be an editor in order to be a good composer.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

Composers are always going back to the past.

As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

It's really been enlightening for me to work with composers because I used to think that everything in the music was exactly what the composer meant. Well, it's what the composer meant in that moment when they wrote it.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

We love what we do. We're passionate about making music and as composers; that's just who we are.

Many composers are asked to come up with three great songs in ten days... But it's rare for us to pull that off. You cannot force the brain to make a great song and I'm very scared of doing bad work.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

My father Apresh Lahiri and mother Bansari Lahiri were great composers of their time.

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

I like composing music, but I love being with my family.