Amaal Mallik Quotes

I don't care if it's Dr. Dre or Dr. Luke or Brian Eno. When you're in a studio and making music together, it becomes pretty apparent if you see eye to eye.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of 'Guzarish'… When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

Me and Thugger could make nine songs in a day and then choose which songs we like the most and think is gonna do something. With other people, it's like, we pick one song, and we hope it's the one.

I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.

From the engineer to the producer, all of these roles are critical to creating a song.

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

I would like to work with Ed Sheeran at some point. I really admire his songwriting, and I just think he has a great voice and great artistry. Who else? On the producer side of things, definitely Diplo: that'd be awesome.

Anybody that really know me know that I love to make a lot of content, make a lot of music.

I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'