Amaal Mallik Quotes

If 200 songs are coming every year, there should be a ratio that at least 150-180 songs should be original.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

The whole industry evolves around a great song.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I have these songs that I've been playing for so many years. They're so intimate and close to me. And these are songs that probably a major label would not be interested in - some of them, anyway - interested in putting on a record.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.

I want to do, like, 50 records.

With Joe Walsh, that was kind of random. I'd written 'Hi-Roller Baby' for myself while I was at Island/Def Jam; literally, four years later, it got cut. Songs can be around for a long time.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

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

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.