In honor of Mac Miller, who tragically passed away on September 7th, 2018, we have collected 150 of his most insightful and powerful quotes about love, life, and music. Miller was a unique artist who spoke openly and honestly about his experiences in the world, and these quotes reflect that. Whether you are a fan of his music or not, there is something to learn from Miller’s words.
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Mac Miller Quotes
- “I like seeing good people win.” – Mac Miller
- “Life goes on, days get brighter.” – Mac Miller
- “Stand by those who stand by you.” – Mac Miller
- “Life’s a b*tch, but she’s my b*tch.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m just an idea, nothing concrete.” – Mac Miller
- “I could fly home with my eyes closed.” – Mac Miller
- “You got the world right in your hands.” – Mac Miller
- “Everything will be good by the weekend.” – Mac Miller
- “Go through the worst to reach the ecstasy.” – Mac Miller
- “This sh*t is so lonely until she get naked.” – Mac Miller
- “The difference between love and war—inform me.” – Mac Miller
- “Looking at my life is like you watching movies.” – Mac Miller
- “We were just drinking some joint juice earlier.” – Mac Miller
- “I thank God for blessing me with life every day.” – Mac Miller
- “The day that I die on will turn me into an icon.” – Mac Miller
- “Planting the seeds, working and watching it grow.” – Mac Miller
- “Found a difference from the ground and the floor.” – Mac Miller
- “If you didn’t make mistakes, you wouldn’t get far.” – Mac Miller
- “It’s hard to dream when you’re deep inside of one.” – Mac Miller
- “If it ain’t about a dream, then it ain’t about me.” – Mac Miller
- “I just like to sing for people who have lost love.” – Mac Miller
- “I’ve been going through it, you just go around it.” – Mac Miller
- “Driving with my eyes close, missing all the signs.” – Mac Miller
- “I killed the game like Jeffrey Dahmer did the 80s.” – Mac Miller
- “Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.” – Mac Miller
- “No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile.” – Mac Miller
- “A penny for your thoughts, a dollar for your dreams.” – Mac Miller
- “Tripping out, looking at a bunch of Google Map stars.” – Mac Miller
- “I could take a photo, but I’d rather paint a picture.” – Mac Miller
- “It seems I’m getting fresher everytime I turn around.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m so stubborn, I’d rather write my own history book.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m rockin’ PJs and no shirt. I smoke weed, eat yogurt.” – Mac Miller
- “Been contemplating if I even still believe in the truth.” – Mac Miller
- “I be goofy, kinda funny, acting stupid but they love me.” – Mac Miller
- “I ain’t no hipster, but girl, I can make your hips stir.” – Mac Miller
- “I thought you was an angel, now you yellin’ to the Lord.” – Mac Miller
- “Style comes with excellence, and money makes benevolence.” – Mac Miller
- “I got codeine in my cup, you can bet your *ss I’m sipping.” – Mac Miller
- “Love a drug that everybody here just tryna get a taste of.” – Mac Miller
- “Uncontrollable behavior with some psychopathic tendencies.” – Mac Miller
- “You know how much you love it when you get it in abundance.” – Mac Miller
- “The journey that I’m facin’ plus the paper that I’m chasin.” – Mac Miller
- “If I stay in one mindset or place for too long, I get crazy.” – Mac Miller
- “I said it must be the drugs that got us thinking crazy sh*t.” – Mac Miller
- “You’re a princess to the public, but a freak when it’s time.” – Mac Miller
- “The life you live is more important than the words you speak.” – Mac Miller
- “Life is just a recital, better remember all that you practice.” – Mac Miller
- “None of my friends were fake, but none of my clothes designer.” – Mac Miller
- “If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.” – Mac Miller
- “Never scared of death, but I ain’t ready for that day to come.” – Mac Miller
- “Money kills, that’s the truth. It’s called ‘the root of evil.’” – Mac Miller
- “People worship these idols, ’til they come in contact with gods.” – Mac Miller
- “People change and things go wrong, but just remember—life goes on.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m just tryna make better music—get this money, share the profits.” – Mac Miller
- “People love you when they on your mind. A thought is love’s currency.” – Mac Miller
- “Music is what I love. Take that away from me and I really got nothing.” – Mac Miller
- “I don’t want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound.” – Mac Miller
- “Watching Dawson’s creek ’till I fall asleep—it’s harder than it seems.” – Mac Miller
- “If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m 21 years old, and I think that I’ve got a lot of perspective in life.” – Mac Miller
- “I think I’m JFK’s final speech. They try assassinating all of my beliefs.” – Mac Miller
- “We fear rejection, want attention, crave affection, and dream of perfection.” – Mac Miller
- “Time goes by living without you, hope you know, I’ve been thinking about you.” – Mac Miller
- “I just kind of kick it at my crib all day, because I’m not famous at my house.” – Mac Miller
- “Some people need to just stop thinking about everything they do, and just do it.” – Mac Miller
- “Never make yourself feel like nothing, to make someone else feel like everything.” – Mac Miller
- “Treat it like your last night. Even if you broke, spend tonight like your cash right.” – Mac Miller
- “Don’t count the number of friends you have, but the number of friends you can count on.” – Mac Miller
- “I don’t feel like taking pictures with anyone, or doing anything. I just like chillin’.” – Mac Miller
- “Said I’ll make it big when everybody knows me. Well, I made it big, and everybody phony.” – Mac Miller
- “Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won’t make a record with anyone unless we kick it.” – Mac Miller
- “I don’t know if I’m a feminist, but I just know that I am all for outspoken, powerful women.” – 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
- “I got problems, can’t sleep at night, ‘cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night.” – Mac Miller
- “If you’re an artist who’s built on marketing and hype, then most likely, I won’t listen to you.” – 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
- “You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don’t mean a thing ’til you change it.” – Mac Miller
- “Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death, and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.” – 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
- “Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.” – Mac Miller
- “I’mma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin’, I’mma smile back.” – Mac Miller
- “I’ve been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.” – Mac Miller
- “When being unable to differentiate a good from a bad decision—it has become time to follow your heart.” – 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
- “I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, a lot of weird-*ss music, like weird-*ss, old Portishead.” – 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
- “To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life, and have been incredible sources of energy.” – Mac Miller
- “So many people told me that I wouldn’t be sh*t. But now, I walk around with money, and my hand on my dick.” – Mac Miller
- “The whole background of ‘Avian’ is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.” – Mac Miller
- “When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me. It was an escape, and it showed me a different way of life.” – Mac Miller
- “There’s a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out, and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.” – Mac Miller
- “I’m an honest man, my mama told me never put it on the lotto, and I work for everything I get—that is my motto.” – 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
- “They’re gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams, but you gotta get up, and go, and think of better things.” – Mac Miller
- “I’ve been laughed at, hated on, no one would even play my songs. Wouldn’t even listen to anything that my name was on.” – 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
- “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
- “With ‘Blue Slide Park,’ I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I’m not mad at it, but that was its goal.” – Mac Miller
- “I just have always felt as long as I’m 100 percent honest, then it’s just me. It’s a lot easier to sleep at night that way.” – Mac Miller
- “They told me never fall in love, it never works out in your favor. You’re way too young, and right now that’s just human nature.” – 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
- “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
- “Enjoy the best things in your life, ’cause you ain’t gonna live it twice. They say you waste time asleep, but I’m just trying to dream.” – Mac Miller
- “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
- “So high, looking at heaven below. You know me though, from coast to coast for smoking dope, overdose with the holy ghost, but hold the phones.” – Mac Miller
- “The number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they’ve gotten.” – 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
- “As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.” – 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 think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it’s the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.” – 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
- “Lord is important, but I am stronger. I’m a monster with the heart of a lion, divide and conquer. Walk on water, it won’t be long till I flyin’, that’s my departure.” – Mac Miller
- “When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you’ve been suppressing it forever. It’s so much easier to navigate what’s important.” – Mac Miller
- “Came up from the gravel to the m*th*rf*ck*ng castle. Broke culture, all we do is trappin’ at the table breaking bread with Italians. Got a whole bunch of b*tch*s doing Valiums.” – Mac Miller
- “Performing for 60,000 people, that’s easy. The energy’s already there. They’re already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words—and feed them energy, too.” – 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
- “Actin’ goofy, absolutely, ‘cause my passion suits me. So blast the tunes please. I see the world with four eyes, hip-hop tour guide. Hear the war cries—rap or die. I just wanna get signed.” – Mac Miller
- “Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, ‘Oh, are you Mac Miller?’ and then the rest of the night I couldn’t be myself.” – Mac Miller
- “I’ve always wanted to sing. I don’t think I have a great voice, but I just think that I get the emotion—it’s very authentic. Whatever emotion I’m feeling, I can sing it, and you can feel it.” – Mac Miller
- “At first, you’re doing it for yourself, it’s about what sounds good to you, it’s about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist, and you find yourself and people get familiar.” – Mac Miller
- “I swear to God, I put the hero in h*r**n. These flows, kilos, I could sell snow to a ski slope. I could sell evil to the devil, nonbelievers to a temple. Sh*t, I could sell water to a speedboat.” – 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
- “To everyone who sell me drugs. Don’t mix it with that b*llsh*t, I’m hopin’ not to join the 27 club. Just want the coke dealer house with the velvet rug. F*ck the world, there’s no one else but us.” – Mac Miller
- “Sometimes, I see the world for how f*ck*d 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
- “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
- “Every time I put my dick inside a b*tch, it’s spiritual. Got the whip that say ‘wealthy’ on my steering wheel. Brand new model b*tch made me waffles and some cereal, that’s what I call a ‘good morning.’” – 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
- “We in between heaven and hell. F*ck your 9 to 5, I’d rather end up dead or in jail. American ninja to these obstacles. No stoppin’ me, we on the move, your mouth runnin’ like a prostitute’s. Keep your head to yourself.” – 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
- “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
- “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
- “People put their voice everywhere—all through Instagram comments. As minuscule and kind of stupid as that is, at the same time, it’s dope. People really feel like, ‘I have to say something,’ which is sometimes a little much, but like, ‘Go ahead, man. Speak away.’” – Mac Miller
- “Front row know every single song. When she know she comin’ home with me, she always bring her thong. Bring her lingerie, whatever moods she in but a movie in. Got the lights dim, we gonna make love till night’s end. Have you callin’ up ya friends like ‘oww I like him.’” – 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
- “I’m gonna make music, and I’m gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That’s really all I’m trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.” – 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
- “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
- “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 can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I’m with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.” – Mac Miller
- “It never gets boring for me because there’s so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio’s become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it’s true, I’m no different. I’ve made some crazy hard records, and I’ve made a jazz album.” – Mac Miller
Mac Miller Quotes About Love
- “My lady, she love me, she don’t judge me. She know all my flaws, and how I’m buggin’. Knows I be on the road, and she still show patience. And that just let me know that I made the right decision. Plus, her heart so cold, she don’t need no surgery.” – Mac Miller
- “I can have a song with Ariana Grande that is going to be the song for all the kids and the teen girls, and then another song that could be for a different group of people who all love the song. I’m with whoever. Whatever type of people want to love the music and whatever they love about the music is fine with me.” – Mac Miller
Mac Miller Quotes About Life
- “I realized that I can do anything I really set my mind to. And it might not be the smartest thing to say, but I feel like I’ve been reborn. I have a new life and a new focus, and just different aspirations now. And I can really do anything.” – Mac Miller
- “You know, people ask me all the time, what kind of advice would you give to somebody starting out? And it’s like, the best advice I could give is just don’t listen to anybody else. You know, don’t listen to the blogs, don’t listen to what people say, just do what you love and fuck the rest. You know? That’s really it. Just block out all the white noise and all the people that don’t believe in you, and just do what you do.” – Mac Miller
Mac Miller Quotes About Music
- “I love music, and I feel like it saved my life. It’s the one thing I can go to, and it makes me feel better. And I want to make music that does the same for other people.” – Mac Miller
- “I want to be remembered as someone who was real. As someone who was honest and put out good music, and just tried to stay true to himself. And did it his way.” – Mac Miller
- “My goal, in the end, is to be able to look back and say that I made some great music, I had some good times, I made some money and was able to take care of my family, and just be proud of what I did.” – Mac Miller
Wrapping Up
If you’re a fan of Mac Miller, then these quotes are sure to resonate with you. And if you’re not a fan, maybe they’ll inspire you to give his music a listen. Either way, it’s clear that Mac was a talented artist with a lot to say—about love, life, and music. His words will continue to live on through his music, and we hope they bring you some comfort and inspiration.
What’s your favorite Mac Miller quote? Let us know in the comment section below.
