Amaal Mallik Quotes

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

The end game is always a hit song.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

My most successful album happened back in the mid-'90s, pre-Internet times, with 'Songs For A Blue Guitar.' We were supported by Island Records; we toured a lot. Songs were licensed to TV commercials and movies.

If you want to release your own single, there cannot be a better launch than going to Los Angeles and collaborating with a renowned artist.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

When most of my solo/single tracks started making a buzz globally, labels started placing my songs in movies.

When 'Flaws' went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we'd ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album.

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

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

I don't really know what a debut album is no more. As long as you got music on the streets, you've debuted.