Talib Kweli Quotes

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

I just want to play shows and write songs and make music. That's what feels good.

I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

My sons are coming out with music. Square Off, they're called.

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.

I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.

I just love singing, songwriting and touring.

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

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

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

Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

When I was playing with the Truckers, a lot of really good things happened. And we had a good trajectory for a long time. For that kind of a band, for the kind of music that I've always made, we had a lot of success, I think.

I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.

I made, like, five records as Dirty Projectors before I got out of college. And then I put a band together when I got interested in going on tour around that time.

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.

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

No. 1, I'm a songwriter, and I don't really get out and tour.