Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Mustard

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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Mustard

Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, known professionally as Mustard, is an American record producer and beatmaker. He is a frequent collaborator of fellow California-bred artists YG and Ty Dolla Sign; among various other records for the hip hop and R&B genres since his entrance into mainstream music with Tyga's 2011 single, "Rack City".

Kids don't come with instruction manuals. It's interesting, but after you have your kids, it's a blessing. It's not as hard as people may think it is.
I'm into having a good time and showing people you can have fun. Because for a long time, the West Coast, it wasn't about having fun. It was about gang banging; it just wasn't fun no more. So now I'm bringing fun back.
Diplo is one of my homies. — © Mustard
Diplo is one of my homies.
Skrillex is dope. He plays everything. It's amazing what he does.
When I came in the game, it was just me making beats in Inglewood at YG's house; it wasn't nobody to help me.
I like dressing in designer clothes, and it's hard to buy them if you are overweight. And I got tired of, like, going in the stores, and then it was like I couldn't fit in anything. And overall, I wanted to be healthy.
You can't pick a fight with anyone doing something with your sound.
I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.
Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.
I'm trying to work with as many people as possible.
It means everything to be a father. I had a father growing up, so I wanted my kids to have a father as well.
I don't want people to think that just because I do club records, I can't do an album record or an R&B single. I can do R&B, I do pop, I do whatever - but it's still Mustard.
When Drake sings, it makes everybody feel like they can sing. Not saying he's a bad singer - he's a good singer - but it just makes everybody feel like, 'If Drake can sing, I can sing, too.'
I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun. — © Mustard
I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.
I know that everything comes to an end. Everything is a phase.
I thought I was going to be YG's DJ forever. I didn't plan on producing; I just picked up producing and got good at it.
I've always had an ear for rocking a party. Just knowing what people like.
I used to live with YG.
When I got my first check from 'Rack City,' I was like, 'Damn, I can make this much money making beats?'
I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.
I hear a lot of people saying my stuff sounds the same. When you're in my position, people come to you to give them the same sound in a different type of way.
My goal is to be the Jay Z of DJing.
It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.
If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.
My uncle, he's a big DJ out here in L.A. His name is DJ Tee; he's got a bar in Westchester.
There's male groupies - guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.
I never want to get stuck in the box.
I actually care about my shows.
10 Summers isn't just a label, it's a lifestyle.
Dark music always works in a club.
You can't stop what God wants to happen.
I started DJing when I was, like, 11.
When we came out, they just labelled us 'ratchet music' cos we said 'ratchet' a lot. Ratchet means that's it's ghetto, but I would just call the music we're making just good music.
Everybody in the West Coast always like to hear YG, RJ, and Mustard together.
I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.
I'm big on simplicity. I'm not too much on all the extra instruments.
Don't just be a mystery to your kids. You need your kids to know you and know they can call you whenever they need you.
I feel like having a son made me go harder and work harder. And now that I got a daughter, it's the same grind, staying focused on what I have to do for them. — © Mustard
I feel like having a son made me go harder and work harder. And now that I got a daughter, it's the same grind, staying focused on what I have to do for them.
I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.
'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.
I don't want to be known for only making ratchet music.
Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.
You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.
Everybody likes the new guy. Being the new guy is cool. But then when you're there for a couple months, you're just the cool guy. I think I'm just the cool guy.
Any man can take a sucker punch, but if you get slapped, it's other repercussions to that.
Being the new guy, you're gonna dress your best every day. When you're the cool guy, you gonna be like, 'Ah, I'm the cool guy anyway. I don't need to dress like that.'
I think it's good that producers are showing more ways to show their artistry and be more the artist, you know? Not just the producer in the back making the beats.
With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.
I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing. — © Mustard
I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing.
What I would tell young producers is if there is someone out there who can help you, then go work with that person.
The past is always recycled. I'm just taking what the people I looked up to did and translating it for my generation.
My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing, and that was my out.
YG and I told each other when we was coming up that if we didn't feel like we was close to making it by 25, we was going to stop.
I'm just doing all type of music that I like. I'm not so worried about the money like I used to be. I got money now. I don't have to worry about that.
I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.
Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.
As long as you have a percentage of a song, that lasts forever. You have to study the business. Don't just be in it for money. You have to understand what you're in it for, then get your money.
'Ratchet' has a lot of meanings. You can be a bad ratchet or a good ratchet. You can have fun, be ghetto, and get ratchet.
Everybody knows YG is a turnt up dude that can't nobody control.
I think Justin Bieber should let me executive produce his album.
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