I believe that life offers you packages. It doesn’t offer you good and bad, otherwise you will choose the good and you will leave the bad. It offers you packages and every package has some good and some bad. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at the cost of depth of words. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it’s a ‘cat.’ But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it’s a cat. So a cat it is. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
I genuinely believe that people who are in their 20s and 30s understand certain things that I don’t. I have a lot to offer to them and vice-versa. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets. Javed Akhtar Read Quote
