Traditional musical forms like ‘Parai Isai’ and ‘Villupattu’ are unique, and they need to be protected and nurtured. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
Music reigns supreme. It does not need a visual prop. While listening to a number, do you enjoy the tune, or do you enjoy it because you imagine someone singing it? In fact, quite a few hits of mine are from films that no one has heard about. The songs still rule, though. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated – Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
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. Ilaiyaraaja Read Quote
