Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Mac Miller
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
I just like to sing for people who have lost love.
I like seeing good people win.
Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.
I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I'm with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.
I never watched 'Cheers,' actually.
As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.
I don't know if I'm a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.
Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.
I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.
I've always wanted to sing. I don't think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion. It's very authentic. Whatever emotion I'm feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.
Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn't leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, 'Oh, are you Mac Miller?' and then the rest of the night I couldn't be myself.
There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.
I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.
My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.
I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.
'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.
People put their voice everywhere. All through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it's dope. People really feel like, 'I have to say something,' which is sometimes a little much, but like, 'Go ahead, man. Speak away.'
I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.
To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.
I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.
If I stay in one mindset or place for too long, I get crazy.
It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.
People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.
With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.
I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.
If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.
I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.
When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.
My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'
Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.
The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.
I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.
I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.
Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.
When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.
I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.
Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.
Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.
Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.
Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.
Stand by those who stand by you.
No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.
I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.
They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.
Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.
Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress.
People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.
Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.
I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.
You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.
No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!
If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.
It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.
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