Amaal Mallik Quotes

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

My father being a theatre person used to compose music for his plays. He noticed me singing one of his compositions at a young age and he was amazed. From then on, he taught me the little things that he knew about music.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I'm a musical genius.

To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.

I write music visually.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

You can't write much quality, original music on a concertina.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I feel I am fortunate that I could become a composer.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

It takes lot of years for a composer to make a name.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So I've always been interested in writing music from a very early age.