Quotes by Mike Dean - Page 1

I'm not a gangster. I'm a musician.
Mike Dean /
Musician
Gangster
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Moog embodies a sound luxury like no other.
Mike Dean /
Luxury
Embodies
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Willie D is one of the first people I worked with.
Mike Dean /
First People
Willie
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Music and motorcycles was my thing when I was a kid.
Mike Dean /
Motorcycles
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Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.
Mike Dean /
Labels
Cleared
Major
Samples
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I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.
Mike Dean /
Bars
Different Places
Places
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For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.
Mike Dean /
Fantasy
Twisted
Studio
Spent
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That's just what I call myself when I DJ: Mexican Wrestling Association.
Mike Dean /
Association
Mexican
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I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.
Mike Dean /
Dad
Chemical
Designed
Plants
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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
Mike Dean /
Bass
Lessons
Piano Lessons
Sax
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'Black Skinhead' almost got deaded because it was too much like a soccer song.
Mike Dean /
Black
Soccer
Song
Too Much
Almost
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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 /
Taste
Rappers
Jay-Z
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If I hear music that has a hole in it and has a space for me to fit in, I go for that stuff.
Mike Dean /
Space Music Me
Hear Music
Hole
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I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.
Mike Dean /
Track
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People come with the record done but just need a little more sauce on top. That's what I'm good at.
Mike Dean /
Sauce
Good People Done
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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 /
Middle
Miles
Small Town
Nowhere
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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.
Mike Dean /
Careers
Literal
Mold
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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.
Mike Dean /
Clearance
Doubt
Moments
Reasonable
Rhyme
Beat
Ended
Jay-Z
Label
Switched
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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.
Mike Dean /
Bass
Dean
Fascinated
Little Kid
Mother
Secret
Sound
Weapons
Since
Guitar Always Me
Dorothy
Guitar Me Always
Lesson
Synthesizer
Took
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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.
Mike Dean /
Bee Gees
Collaborators
Fit
Half
Justin
Bee
Distorted
Michael
Genres
Half The Time
Mcdonald
Marbles
Mouth
Saying
Sing
Vernon
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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.
Mike Dean /
Disrespect
Hood
Scales
Song
Theory
Music Your People
Music Song People
Figure
Note
Pass
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