Mike Will Made It (Michael Len Williams II) Quotes
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I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.
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In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
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Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
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When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
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Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.
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I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
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Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving.
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I always want to win with a world record.
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I'm learning in my own sort of quiet, out-of-the-spotlight kind of way. I certainly have my general point of view about the government, and the future of our children. I'm certainly learning all the time, I'm happy to be an onlooker for now.
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Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up.
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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself.
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Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.
