Amaal Mallik Quotes

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.

I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

When I'm making a record, I'm trying to take people through different moods.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.