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Satyajit Ray

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

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"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

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"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."

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"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
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"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."
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"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."
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"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."
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"I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time."
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