Mike Posner Quotes
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It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form.
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If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
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My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color.
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I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
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If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.
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I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.
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There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.
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I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
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I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.
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I have my dream job. I get paid to make music.
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I like regular girls.
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I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
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I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.
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My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
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I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.
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A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.
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My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip.
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I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.
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People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
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Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
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Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer... I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high.
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I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
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I consider myself a lyrics guy.
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I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.