Mike Will Made It Quotes

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I can't stand making records.

That's the thing I love the most - making records and creating new things. That's always the thing that grabbed me. Making records is the thing that I really love.

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.

Making records should be fun.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

To me, making records isn't work.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks, and I can't just sit back as a drummer anymore.