Hari Kondabolu Quotes

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

I like to make great albums.

I don't do concept records anymore - I just prefer doing good songs.

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

You don't get bored making an album.

I'm always working on music.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

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

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

My approach to making music has always been making ideas and developing them. Sometimes I develop them all the way by myself. The other part of development is I will work with my friends who are just some of the best producers in the world, give them an idea.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

For every album we worked on, I brought in reels of tape of somewhere between fourteen and eighteen songs - some of them completed, with lyrics and melodies, some of them basic tracks. Things came out of those products. Like, for 'Hotel California', I think I had a reel with sixteen songs on it.

Our album stuff, we bring it to our producer to help us finesse. But anything that's been on YouTube and a lot of the stuff that's been on the album, too, it started from us just sitting around in a circle and jamming it and finding where the parts fit.

An album takes a lot of work and energy and dedication to make.

Making an album is always a puzzle: you start by seeing a lot of different pieces, and they all need to come together into one picture.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'