Mike Will Made It Quotes

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

I'm not a hit machine.

I must have 300 songs unreleased or unrecorded, lying around. I'm a production machine, it never stops.

Sometimes you can do a million songs, and if they're not good, you're just wasting your time.

The minute they gave me number one, I went to the studio. I was ready to give y'all something else. I was going 120 miles an hour.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

The only thing that follows work is results.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

You can only have two things in life, reasons and results. Reasons don't count.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

Don't make excuses, make good.

I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.