Pritam Chakraborty Quotes

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

I'm always working on multiple songs at a time.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.

I started out on an apprenticeship in Hollywood working as an assistant to Hans Zimmer and another composer Klaus Badelt. That's how I got my foot in the door.

I have all these computers and keyboards and synthesizers, and I rattle away. For instance, with The Lion King I wrote over four hours worth of tunes, and they were really pretty -but totally meaningless. So in the end I came up with material I liked. We worked on The Lion King for four years, but I wasn't toying until the last three-and-a-half weeks properly. On Crimson Tide, on the other hand, I just went in and within seconds I knew what I wanted.

I've never been one of those 'quantity' guys. I'm not one of those guys who puts out a record every year whether it's any good or not.

The first album is a special one for most bands or most artists in general. The first record is your whole life, and then after that you have a couple of months to write stuff and get it for the next record.

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.

The way I made 'Diamonds and Dirt,' which had all those hits in a row, was that I was just making a record. It was just the one that rolled up in my natural process, and it happened to be commercial.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

You put your blood, sweat, and tears into an album and you think that's where it ends, but no - when you go on tour you're still carrying the life of that album and the life of those songs until you put your next project out.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.

'I Remember' was produced before the vocal. It's just another body of work in the long list of bodies of work.