Top 60 Mike Will Made It Quotes

I used to listen to songs on the radio and play that junk back on that little keyboard.

With ‘HUMBLE.,’ I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.

I used to be with Gucci every day. School nights, I was with Gucci going to all the different clubs, going to his video shoots. Just moving around with him is how I met a lot of different artists like 2 Chainz and Shawty Lo and other people I work with now.

I don’t put myself in any box or say that I can’t work on any kind of music. I’m not just a producer that only makes urban music.

I’m not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I’ve put it out – I like to make them count.

If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that’s where you’ll go.

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I’m trying to build an empire.

I want to work with anybody original.

Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.

I used to grind. I be telling people, you don’t grind, you don’t sell. I was like 15, 16 getting dropped off in the city by myself, with my own beat CDs.

I feel like Rae Sremmurd is just a whole new sound culturally. People don’t understand, but they learn to understand. The melody choice is different and everything.

I really like coming across all types of different music, and hearing new things.

It started off with me being all the way influenced by Atlanta and southern music but I knew my sound had to grow – I started learning melodies.

I like making dope music.

Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He’s a genius to me.

No teacher ever skipped the student process… if you want to be a leader, you have to be a follower first.

Me and Miley just clicked. She has good ideas. She’s real creative.

Miley Cyrus is the new Madonna.

The ‘trap’ sound is a sound from the city. We’ve always liked music with bass. We’ve always liked old schools with big speakers in the trunks. We like our music loud. We’ve always had a nightlife scene in Atlanta.

Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and ‘Bandz a Make Her Dance’ was first taking off.

I’m creative so I’m always gonna create.

We Can’t Stop’ has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It’s a feel-good record.

I’m just trying to follow the footsteps of God. I don’t question him. Just keep moving. He never fails. He always amazes me. It’s like, damn, the sky isn’t the limit.

I wouldn’t say money can buy happiness. Happiness starts with yourself. Money can buy a smile, though.

You can’t please everybody. As long as you make dope music, you’re gonna have your fans.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

I love Atlanta.

Matter fact, my girl complains about how much I’m in the studio working. But she sees the results as they roll out.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

I’ve just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.

I didn’t have no college friends. All the artists the college folks were listening to were my homies. I was leaving class, literally, to record with them.

2 Chainz and I have a history. It’s always an honor and pleasure working with him, because it seems like everything we do is dope. We just have that organic chemistry.

I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.

I wanted to find raw talent and help build it from scratch. I wanted to build from rags to riches. That’s the way Ear Drummers did it. We took over the music industry from my mom’s basement. That’s why my first album is going to be called ‘Made It Out the Basement.’

If you’re a super-producer, you can produce whatever you want to produce. That’s where I’m at.

I don’t want to be on the mic, man. I want to stay producing.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he came on his verses every time.

I like everything rare – cars, shoes, clothes.

Me and Future, we did ‘Dirty Sprite,’ ‘Ain’t No Way Around It,’ ‘Turn on the Lights.’ Every time we record, we’re setting bars.

I want to make sure that I sign dope artists, old and new, just to make sure that we come up with something new and creative.

If I tell you purple look good on you, and you ain’t never wore purple, your favorite colors are red and green, and you’re like, No man, these my colors. You won’t know purple is your color until you try it on.

I like blessing others around me. When you work hard, it’s just dope to give back to the people around you.

I’m a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

At the end of the day, I was listening to the big homies and they were saying, ‘Yo, man, you got talent, man, stay off the streets.’

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

Tupac Back’ was the first single I had, but prior to that I already had 20-something songs in the street.

I’m always that dude that’s looking for the next thing.

A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, ‘I do all these music videos, and I still don’t own a Red camera?’ So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom!

I wanted ‘Formation’ to be a woman empowerment song, but Beyonce made it into a culture empowerment song.

I really believed in 2 Chainz, I really believed in Future, and I was going to the studio with them every single day.

2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.

Yeah, I co-directed ’23.’ Yeah, the whole concept of the video… Even with that video, I feel like it’s not a video that you can get sick of. You can always go back and watch that and it’s fresh.

I can work with all these different kinds of artists and still be able to come up with huge records. Not just cool records, but game-changing records.

I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.

Kanye is one of my favorite producers and artists.

It’s important to show the new generation that soundtracks can be just as exciting as traditional albums if put in the hands of the right curator.

Future was always the person to knock out multiple bangers in one night.

When I do music I don’t think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

If I get a Grammy, that would be dope.