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" I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music. "
Mike Posner
People
Scared
Gratitude
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" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "
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" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "
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" I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. "
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" A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it. "
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" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "
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Funny
Popular
" I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it. "
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Experience
" I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing. "
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" I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. "
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" I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up. "
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" I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying. "
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Girl
You
Weird
" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "
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Television
Always
Philadelphia
" My songs are all personal. "
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Personal
" I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician. "
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Think
Remember
Famous
" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "
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Kid
Grew
Doing
" When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way. "
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Good
Voice
Way
" I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times. "
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Like
Golf
Club
" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
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Listening
Very
" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "
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People
Enough
Me
" I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything. "
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Friends
Room
Country
" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "
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Stuff
Over
Same
" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "
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Come
Things
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" Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone. "
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End
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" I have my dream job. I get paid to make music. "
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Get
" I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself. "
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Realize
" Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time. "
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Time
Music
" My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip. "
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Car
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Me
" I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason. "
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Heart
Love
" There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things. "
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Happy
Say
" Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously. "
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Subconsciously
Music
Detroit
" I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself. "
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