Malcolm James McCormick has known professionally as Mac Miller was an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Miller began his career in Pittsburgh’s hip hop scene in 2007, at the age of fifteen. In 2010, he signed a record deal with independent label Rostrum Records and released his breakthrough mixtapes K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). Miller’s debut studio album, Blue Slide Park (2011), became the first independently distributed debut album to top the US Billboard 200 since 1995. This Mac Miller quotes will motivate you.
Best Mac Miller Quotes
- “They say you waste time asleep, but I’m just trying to dream.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Your life’s short, don’t ever question the length / It’s cool to cry, don’t ever question your strength.” ~ Mac Miller
- “People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.” ~ Mac Miller
- “No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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!” ~ Mac Miller
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“Stand by those who stand by you.” ~ Mac Miller
- “If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn’t get far.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I could take a photo, but I’d rather paint a picture.” ~ Mac Miller
- “You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don’t mean a thing ’til you change it.” ~ Mac Miller
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“It’s hard to dream when you’re deep inside of one.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Girl I don’t wanna share you
We could be together, but you scared to
I ain’t gonna leave you
My people tell me I should
And when I blow I hope you know
That I could have any girl I choose
But as time goes by, baby all I’m gonna want is you” ~ Mac Miller - “Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.” ~ Mac Miller
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“People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love’s currency.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Blessed with some success, so I’mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he’ll be impressed.” ~ Mac Miller
- “In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn’t for them, I’d be way closer to insanity.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I just like to sing for people who have lost love.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Treat it like your last night. Even if you broke, spend tonight like your cash right.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I’ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin’, I’ma smile back.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin’ like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.” ~ Mac Miller
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“I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that’s just human nature.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I’m rockin’ PJ’s and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt” ~ Mac Miller
- “When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision: it has become time to follow your heart.” ~ Mac Miller
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“We were just drinking some joint juice earlier.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I’ll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn’t hear the pain in it.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I don’t feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin’.” ~ Mac Miller
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“It seems I’m getting fresher every time I turn around.” ~ Mac Miller
- “If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I don’t want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I’m 21 years old and I think that I’ve got a lot of perspective in life.” ~ Mac Miller
- “You can be labelled but if it doesn’t speak to people then it won’t work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don’t want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.” ~ Mac Miller
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“Radio’s a scary thing for me. It’s dope to be on there.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I don’t really leave my house too much, ’cause I don’t like… it’s funny, I don’t really like to be high and famous at the same time.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I’m underrated, don’t fit on nobody’s playlist / If I ain’t in your top 10, then you’re a racist.” ~ Mac Miller
- “If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.” ~ Mac Miller
- “If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
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“Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.” ~ Mac Miller
- “The blogs have been great and everything, but I think, for me, it’s better to have a central place on the Internet for all my fans to go and show their friends my YouTube, Twitter, and social networking sites. To have that spread all on its own and have a central station to get everything Mac Miller.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I was never just a ‘fill in 16 bars on a beat’ rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I’m not famous at my house.” ~ Mac Miller
- “One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it’s easy to group everyone that’s on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” ~ Mac Miller
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“Watching Dawson’s creek ’til I fall asleep. It’s harder than it seems.” ~ Mac Miller
- “Said I’ll make it big when, everybody know me
Well, I made it big and, everybody phony” ~ Mac Miller - “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “When I was in a meeting, I got advice that was someone telling me that in order to be successful, I needed to create the character Mac Miller that couldn’t be the same person as who I really was.” ~ Mac Miller
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“If you’re an artist who’s built on marketing and hype then most likely I won’t listen to you.” ~ Mac Miller
- “I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar, and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I’m trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That’s what I’m learning how to play.” ~ Mac Miller
- “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.” ~ Mac Miller
- “When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.” ~ Mac Miller
- “The whole background of ‘Avian’ is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.” ~ Mac Miller
