The Wisdom Wall

12 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.

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“Some people understand something better than other people because it comes the way the mind works. It doesn't mean that other people can't reach there.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“Be careful in not giving every part of us to the industry. We should have soul left with us so that I can do other things in art.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“Because I'm giving away all the stuff I learned, but if I don't have anything new to offer, I'll be thrown away. So it's important to evolve artistically as a musician, composer”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“When we are listening to Pink Floyd, McQueen, John Williams, Evangelist, Beatles, Michael Jackson, they don't listen to us. So what's the reason? Language, production, and vibe, feel, recording.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“And if we put our energy in mastery in how we deliver the songs to people, definitely they'll like it. It should not be the, you know, I'm giving you classical music. Listen to it. It's good for you. No, give something good and make it masterful with the whole team, like the dance and creativity and everything. They…”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“Because when you don't go with security, people don't take you seriously. Only when like a group of six people come over, somebody is important, oh, that should be him.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“I think what happened was for, for making VR movies, you need to unlearn many things for content. So film people come and use their techniques to do virtual reality. It makes people throw up.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“it shouldn't be a replacement for cinema, but an alternate coexisting, right? So what you don't get in cinema, you'll get on this one. In cinema, you get the kind of community feel, like, you all whistle on the same thing. You all, all, all stack. I look at the other person. Oh, that's a great scene. You know, that you…”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“That's why they say, you know, like if you paint with the right hand constantly and you get comfortable with it, you know, tie your right hand and paint with the left hand. But then you will find a different way, because your mind wants to express, and the limitation of what your left hand is, will make its own art,…”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“When they say something is good, everybody says, oh, that's a hit song. Listen to it. If it's not good enough for me, then throw it out. It has to do something to my heart. It has to do something to my soul. And, That's why I don't care when some song, some of my songs fail. I said, no, it's going to come back. And…”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“If a Western artist has to do an album, they have to think about it. I'm getting help from the script, from the director, from the screenwriter, from the lyricist. My part is just music, right? So each album is different because the different combination of different consciousness comes together and we create with the…”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025

“School is not just about education. It's about understanding humanity. It's about seeing each other and getting to know the stories and learning things from other kids.”

A. R. Rahman, Nov 20, 2025
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