Top 40 Hum Quotes

I heard stories from my mother’s mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

Other black and white films have also been released in colour, but ‘Hum Dono’ is better than all of them. When you watch ‘Hum Dono Rangeen,’ you will feel as though it was shot in colour; you won’t feel that I have got the reels painted by brush.

When I’m recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

After ‘Hunterwali’ went unnoticed, Harmesh Malhotra gave me a break in ‘Poonam,’ but the real start came with F.C. Mehra’s ‘Ek Jaan Hain Hum.’

One of the first movies that I saw in the theatre was ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun.’

What upset me was that after ‘Saawariya,’ which came after the awards and rewards of ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam,’ ‘Devdas’ and ‘Black,’ I was written off, almost hounded out of the industry.

I like something you can hum along to.

There’s something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

Hum Paanch’ made Amrish Puri a star and he went on to play Mogambo in my ‘Mr. India.’

I’ve never read it because I’d like to see one Shakespeare play that I don’t know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre.’

There were certain things in ‘Nemo’ – just this low hum of ocean and watery sound – that was enough to imply water, as opposed to restating it over and over again.

‘Housefull’ was a mass entertainer. Kids loved that film and they asked me when I was coming back. I feel I can’t tell them that I am coming back as Baba 3G in a sex comedy, ‘Kya Super Kool Hai Hum.’

When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don’t even know I’m doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, ‘I love that song you were singing, but it’s distracting.’

I don’t even sing in front of really close friends. It’s embarrassing. I don’t really sing when I’m alone, either. I just hum enjoyably.

By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that’s not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don’t sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that’s all fine.

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,’ you’re going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don’t matter. Sue me – I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

After ‘Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai,’ ‘Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hai’ and ‘Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai,’ my presence as a director will be felt. These three films have been very successful and ‘Badhaai Ho Badhaai’ is going to be the climax. My work is finally recognised.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

When Ajay was shooting ‘U, Me Aur Hum,’ I helped him out with the production. It was a great learning experience being behind the camera.

‘Devdas’ is the first Hindi commercial film to be seen at Cannes. And ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ is getting a whole lot of appreciation abroad. I’m pleased.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

As for me, my foundations were laid in the south. We did the post-production of ‘Hum Paanch’ in Chennai, with many technicians from here working for us.

Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think ‘Hum Dono’ gave me a great double role – I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the ‘haw-haw’ type of major.

Sometimes when people can’t speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

I love music. I like to sing. But I am not a singer. I hum.

‘Hum Paanch’ never lost its magic unlike some of the current shows, which go off air because they lose fizz. Even after running for almost 10 years, the show went off air only because the makers decided to end it.

It’s such a pleasure hosting ‘Indie Hain Hum’ season 2. My love for Indie artists and music has grown and shown me a whole new dimension after I stepped in as a host and RJ for this show.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I had eJay, and then I had Acid Pro. I had a crack of both of them, and I would just make little loops, and then I’d hum along to them. I used to spend a lot of time on a computer looking for music and making beats and stuff.

I really don’t have an ear for pitch. I can’t sing at all, I can’t hum melodies and I can’t write riffs.

In college, I’d gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn’t fit in. And I started writing fiction, at least in part, because it was a way to feel like I was around people, to feel the energy and hum of others’ inner lives, without the real-time frustrations and difficulties of actual relationships.

For the participants of whisper networks – often women – these networks hum below the surface. Whispers are take it or leave it. Whispers are a defense, not an offense.

When you’re on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn’t exactly a sound – it’s a hum, like the streets.

You can’t even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

Right after something happens to me, the first thing I’ll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh. I’ll hum a tune into my phone sometimes.

When I was younger, I’d be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down – I’d have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

‘Hum Dono’ was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

Before Hum Tum,’ I had never done comedy. I was scared.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.