Amaal Mallik Quotes

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

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

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I keep reminding myself I'm the same guy who was lucky enough to get my break because Roger Daltrey commissioned me to write the songs for one of his earlier albums.

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon.

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I have been recording for five decades now.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.