Wale Quotes

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.

You don't get bored making an album.

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

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

I really love crafting albums and thinking of albums as a whole, not just individual songs or singles or just tracks, but a whole entire album.

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.

One thing that I've often done under the Projectors is build an album from a central conceit.

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.

When we worked on Ice Cube's Amerikkka's Most Wanted album. Before we talked studios, beats, or lyrics, I said, "Two rules: Only say what you're able to vouch for. Number two, never repeat yourself twice, because we makin' an album that people will play over and over.

When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

You go in and record and sing them some and you go back in and rerecord and sing them some more. That's kind of how I did this album [The Art of Elegance].

I think making an album is a difficult thing.

It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

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.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.

Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there was a logical connection between our three albums, and it 's great to see that people seem to realize that when they listen now to the live show.