Chinmayi Quotes

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.

I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.

It's a misconception that I compose songs for girls. I have sung a song for Bhagat Singh, too, but nobody knows about it. I have sung about boys, but all of them are super-duper flop.

When I started college, I wrote a song 'Pee Jaun,' with a friend. I never intended to make mainstream music, but that song did really well and I got some recognition.

People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.

People have heard my music, but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else... But that was my goal.

Playback singing has always been my dream.

I can't take credit for the success of my songs.

Even before I got the record deal, I never really used singing to get girls. I always felt weird about that.

I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.

Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of times people have favorite songs that are Motown songs that they didn't even know were Motown songs.

I love that my music is connecting with people, but I don't think there'll be a point where I feel like, 'Oh yeah, I'm famous now.'

Film music is always given a step-motherly treatment though it is the most popular form of music.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

When I am composing in a studio, I cannot gauge what the audience feels. Sometimes, good songs don't get the recognition because the films fail. But when you are performing live, the reaction is immediate.

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

As a composer, it is a great thrill for me to have an album in the top 15 of the pop charts.

It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

I have sung some great songs, and fortunately, all have gone to become hits.

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

I wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

Becoming a Top Ten artist has surprised me.