Gza Quotes

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

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

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

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, then you follow through with that.

Everything I did on the 'Paid in Full' album and those first three albums, I wrote everything right in the studio.

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.