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If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same lyricist then something is not quite right. The language of all has to be different if they are different stories.Collection: Gulzar
If you notice in my own films the blending of songs is distinct. They narrate stories and scenes.Collection: Gulzar
There is an old guest house opposite my house, and grandsons visit from time to time from the U.S., every time grown up a little. I don't know whether the same grandchildren come every time or it is someone else.Collection: Gulzar
Delhi has statues and busts of so many politicians. But what about our artistes?Collection: Gulzar
I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.Collection: Gulzar
When you shake mercury it keeps trembling until it reaches a point when it stops. When you get me started on Partition, that is how I am. It goes back and keeps shaking me up, on and on.Collection: Gulzar
Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.Collection: Gulzar
I firmly believe that Tagore should be taught in schools all over India.Collection: Gulzar
Let me say that discovering Tagore was the turning point of my life.Collection: Gulzar
I wasn't happy with Tagore's own translations in English. Maybe he was, but I wasn't, so I took it upon myself to do it.Collection: Gulzar
Because of my pseudonym Gulzar, which is how I am known, some people think I am a Muslim.Collection: Gulzar
My first love is literature.Collection: Gulzar
It's not easy to make films that one wants to because it is not easy to find a producer that fast for the subjects I want to make. They are not hot cakes in the market.Collection: Gulzar
Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.Collection: Gulzar
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.Collection: Gulzar
I consider Rahman as a great composer. I had a lump in my throat when I heard his name being announced. I thanked God that he got an Oscar for Original Score, that was more than enough for me. I wonder what might have happened to me if I had gone there. I might have cried.Collection: Gulzar
The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.Collection: Gulzar
NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.Collection: Gulzar
When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not prerequisites.Collection: Gulzar
I am not an artist. I am not a painter.Collection: Gulzar
As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.Collection: Gulzar
Dabbling with Tagore was always scary. It happens with masters, with contemporary poets you know their vibes and their meaning. Tagore was different; his aura and the feel of his language was different.Collection: Gulzar
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject them if they are not up to their standards.Collection: Gulzar
Gujarat has a rich culture and in my view every Indian should contribute to highlighting our heritage.Collection: Gulzar
Do you know Afghan children wear shoes when they sleep, so they can run easily if a bomb falls during the night? Iraq has been similarly pushed against the wall. What proof did the West ultimately have, what justification for raining bombs on them?Collection: Gulzar
A vendor selling coconuts on the road is a philosopher. He will have ideas on politics, economics, history, sports. This has saved India. The fact that the common Indian is a thinker is vital.Collection: Gulzar
Power manipulates the innocent and terror is born.Collection: Gulzar
Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.Collection: Gulzar
I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.Collection: Gulzar
In films, there is no scope to rectify any mistake... but in theatre, you can rectify it the next day.Collection: Gulzar
My father used to run a shop in Sadar Bazar in old Delhi, and most of my time would go spending days and evenings at the shop, whiling away hours doing nothing.Collection: Gulzar
I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!Collection: Gulzar
When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on the dais and experience that myself.Collection: Gulzar
Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.Collection: Gulzar
Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in India and poems are being written in as many of them.Collection: Gulzar
I read books, physical books. I am comfortable with it, I can carry it. It is my habit.Collection: Gulzar
I've always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.Collection: Gulzar
A writer will not keep quiet. He will express his opinion through writings.Collection: Gulzar