Wale Quotes

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

I was one of the first rappers to have his own forum. Then 50 Cent made 'Thisis50.com,' and everyone made sites just like it.

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

I am making good music, and I want people to listen to it.

My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'