I started out being quite an eclectic composer, not quite sure where to fit in. I tried my hand a bit at everything, except perhaps music with lyrics.
[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
I began working as an assistant since the age of 16 with my father Dabboo Malik, went on to work with composers like Amar Mohile, Salim-Sulaiman, Pritam Da, and Sandeep Chowta.
I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.
If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.
I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.
Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.
To this day, I still travel with scores. Every time I'm on a plane - it could be Stravinsky or Mozart or Ravel.
After 1999, I thought that I needed a break. As a senior composer, I didn't like the trend of three music directors working on a single film. But after a few quiet years, I was back for good.
Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
I could never have dreamed of picking up an Ivor Novello for anything... but for Songwriter Of The Year, it's just amazing.
I'm a composer, man.
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.
When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.
