“The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not fa...” — Ilaiyaraaja Quote

“The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.”

“Everyone's music is made of their own life experiences.”

“Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that's not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.”

“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.”

“My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.”

“Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.”

“18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.”

“If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.”

“'Dept. of Speculation' contains numerous enviable lines.”

“A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.”

“Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.”

“TV news dominates politics and is extremely low-bandwidth: it contains a few hundred words and rarely uses graphics properly.”