Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Dean

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Mike Dean.

Last updated on April 17, 2025.

Michael George Dean is an American hip hop record producer, audio engineer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Houston, Texas. He is best known for recording and mixing songs and synthesizers for major artists across the American hip hop industry such as Kanye West, Kid Cudi, 2Pac, Scarface, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Desiigner, Drake, Madonna, Selena Gomez, Lana Del Rey, and The Weeknd. He has released three solo studio albums: 4:20 on April 20, 2020, 4:22, on April 22, 2021, and Smoke State 42222 on April 22, 2022.

American - Musician | Born: March 1, 1965

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Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.

Mike Dean

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

Mike Dean

Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.

Mike Dean

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

Mike Dean

That's just what I call myself when I DJ: Mexican Wrestling Association.

Mike Dean

One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label.

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No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.

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I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.

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I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.

Mike Dean

Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.

Mike Dean

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

Mike Dean

'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.

Mike Dean

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

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It's great to watch people come up and help mold their careers. I really took it literal when Kanye said, 'Listen to the kids, bruh.' That really means something.

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I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.

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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

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My taste for rappers is very high. I've only worked with, like, Pac and Jay-Z and Scarface.

Mike Dean

People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.

Mike Dean

I raced motocross; I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid.

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