Anupam Roy Quotes

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

Love songs too have many moods. It can be sad or be joyous and upbeat when one feels jubilant and in love.

On stage I try to be as spontaneous as possible, feeding off the energy of the audience. I just let myself be and have fun on stage.

I have come to Kolkata to make music, but I can’t expect one director to give me work all the time.

I can contribute to the field of music, I would not have been able to contribute to the field of engineering.

I was always a wannabe ‘singer-songwriter‘ but nothing was happening. I was trying for albums. I was too afraid to quit my job for nothing. But my friends kept on encouraging me. I kept on writing songs. My first hit was probably my 150th song.

I think love songs are universal. It doesn’t mean a particular kind of music. It can be happy, sad or even celebratory. Having a radio station dedicated to love songs make sense.

I believe in my kind of music and I’m happy to have reached out to people through my songs. My dream was to sing my compositions and get accepted by listeners.

When I was in college or working, I had the luxury of writing on whatever subject. Now, I’m in the business, I have a deadline and pressures. Sometimes, I have to do things that I am not in the mood for.

I got introduced to Western music and it inspired me. One of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd.

I love the stage and try to balance it out with movies. If you take the stage away from me, then nothing will be left in my life.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

But what doesn’t change is that love is something we all crave. Everyone is looking for that touch, that emotion, that feeling. Love makes the mundane matter.

I love playing football, and I’m pretty aggressive on the field. I’m a different person on the football field.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Creativity is not about making 30 songs in 30 days. It’s never about demand and supply. No one can possibly do that.

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

I like greenery, nature, I don’t like littering the streets. The progress of science and technology comes at a cost and I don’t think we can still fathom the extent of this ‘cost’.

There’s workplace politics in Tollywood, like every other industry in the world. You just learn to deal with it.

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It’s up to the critics to label it.

See, I have two selves in me – a musician and a composer.

I try to talk as less as possible and maximise the music part. I have tons of songs on my set list and I want to sing all of them, or as much as possible. If I talk more it’ll eat into the time allotted for me.

But somehow I feel the world is taking me away from my original rock roots of inspiration. Rock and roll is losing its past glory.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

In Bengali films, since I also write the lyrics, there are certain songs, which I get emotionally and personally attached to.