Top 55 Mustard Quotes

I don’t want people to think that just because I do club records, I can’t do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever – but it’s still Mustard.

Anytime you throw claps back to back on a song, it makes everybody want to get up and have fun. It’s a fun sound.

I think that you’re only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.

I’m not afraid of anything.

With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.

My uncle is just, like, always pushing me to be better, be a man, and showing me the ropes of the game.

Everybody likes good music, so when you’re just playing good music and encouraging everybody to have fun, they’ll have fun.

Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.

If I’m DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That’s annoying.

I’m just real in-tune with music – I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

Anytime anyone of my friends in my camp, if we argue, we gonna fight for real.

You’ve got to change with time.

It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It’s like, why are you pulling on me?

Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you’re there for a couple months, you’re just the cool guy. I think I’m just the cool guy.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.

When we came out, they just labelled us ‘ratchet music’ cos we said ‘ratchet’ a lot. Ratchet means that’s it’s ghetto, but I would just call the music we’re making just good music.

When I got my first check from ‘Rack City,’ I was like, ‘Damn, I can make this much money making beats?’

Time repeats itself, so it’s up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.

When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG’s house; it wasn’t nobody to help me.

I like working with new artists.

I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.

I think it’s good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.

I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.

There’s male groupies – guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.

I started DJing when I was, like, 11.

What I would tell young producers is if there is someone out there who can help you, then go work with that person.

Everybody knows YG is a turnt up dude that can’t nobody control.

I’m trying to work with as many people as possible.

I was taught to work for what I wanted to achieve in life.

TeeFlii brought an edge to our camp. He’s definitely going to be one of the greats.

Sam Smith is amazing.

I hear a lot of people saying my stuff sounds the same. When you’re in my position, people come to you to give them the same sound in a different type of way.

You can’t complain about everybody that steals your sound. You’ll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

Now I have a business, artists to take care of. I want to make sure everything’s going right, because at the end of the day, it’s my name.

You can’t stop what God wants to happen.

I’ve always had an ear for rocking a party. Just knowing what people like.

I’ve been working hard to lose weight and become healthier overall. I even started putting the workouts on my Snapchat so my fans can see how dedicated I am to being better.

I like dressing in designer clothes, and it’s hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn’t fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.

You see so many musicians come and go. For me, it’s really about the longevity in the music industry. It’s not all about having a lot of hit records at one time.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

I think Justin Bieber should let me executive produce his album.

I don’t know why people be in the club trying to be so cool. Standing around, trying to be cool. I don’t get that. I just think everybody wanna be a star. That’s why people don’t dance.

I actually care about my shows.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that’ll put me in the right place.

YG and I told each other when we was coming up that if we didn’t feel like we was close to making it by 25, we was going to stop.

As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don’t just be in it for money. You have to understand what you’re in it for, then get your money.

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It’s not just EDM.

My real name is Dijon. My mom named me Dijon, so everybody used to call me Mustard.

Skrillex is dope. He plays everything. It’s amazing what he does.

I’m just doing all type of music that I like. I’m not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don’t have to worry about that.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

I’m big on simplicity. I’m not too much on all the extra instruments.

Apart from working on music, I’d rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

My goal is to be the Jay Z of DJing.