Allu Arjun Quotes

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

When we got with Dallas Austin, he was just getting on. He was kinda like the fourth member of TLC.

The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

My dad is in the music business in Nashville. I was the third child born in my family, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

By the time my first solo record came out, I was making a handsome living as a record producer. I had worked with the Band, Janis Joplin and all of these other artists in the Albert Grossman organization. So as my so-called solo career evolved, I never felt pressure that I had to come back and top when I might've done before.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person.

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits.

We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

George Martin recorded a lot of my stuff before the Beatles, so I observed their meteoric rise.

I've had a few ditty hits.

I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

I knew Kanye way before he was signed.

Nahmir got smash hits.

'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiyaraaja and Shreya Ghoshal.

I had a lot of songs which, I felt, if they come in an album, they can become bigger hits than in films.

I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of 'Notebook.'