Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.

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.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

I like to make great albums.

I've always wanted to produce a whole album for an artist.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

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

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that is that the ear loves it.

The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

The records I make, I'm there from the writing of the first note through the click tracks to the miking of the drums to the editing of everything to the production to the vocals to the artwork.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time.

I am always thinking about records I want to make.

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

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

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

There is a whole team behind the success of a film song.

I write songs; I record them. When I get enough, and it seems like a coherent piece, I call it an album.

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.

Making records is hard work.