Javed Ali Quotes

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.

I think I was super young when I decided I wanted to be in music and be a singer.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

It is quite normal these days to record a song in the absence of the composer.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I'm not that musical. I don't really know how a record is produced, and, funnily enough, I don't want to.

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.