Quotes by Avicii - Page 1

I'm a DJ. I get the party started.
Avicii / Dj
Party
Started
Dj
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I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
Avicii / Dj
Hard Time
Tour
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Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
Avicii / Dj
Dance
Music
Affected
Dance Music
Different
Music Dance Like
Genres
Virus
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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Conscious
Sweden
Saying
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When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.
Avicii / Dj
Taken
Myspace
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I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
Avicii / Dj
Twitter And Facebook
Connect
Facebook
Helps
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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
Avicii / Dj
Inspired
Melodies
Mostly
Some People
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I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.
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Glamorous
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My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
Avicii / Dj
Music Dad Always
Charles
Grown
Ray
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I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
Avicii / Dj
Surround
Best Good Myself
Judge
General
Pretty Good
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I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
Avicii / Dj
Fans
Perform
Cd
Set
Lay
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I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
Avicii / Dj
Myself Me Way
Perform
Producer
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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
Avicii / Dj
Electronic Music
Rave
Period
Electronic
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For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
Avicii / Dj
Good Music Me
Country Music
Types
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I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
Avicii / Dj
Hooked
Time Music Listening
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There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
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Complaining
Different
Matter
Always
Doing
Same
Too
Haters
Sounds
Whether
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I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
Avicii / Dj
Mainstream
Negative
Weird
Weird People Always
So Many People
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
Avicii / Dj
Music World America
Guess
Originated
Parts
Tighter
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I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
Avicii / Dj
Ability
Fascination
Music Always Your
Awesome
Music Enough Always
Instrument
Skilled
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I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.
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Lauren
Shirts
Worn
Always Me Look
General
Dressed
Look Me Always
Piece
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
Signature
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I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.
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Travel
Bunch
Hotel
Packs
Time Change Always
Battery
Run
Charge
Phone
Change Time Travel
Hotel Room
Room
Traveling
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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.
Avicii / Dj
Music
Grew
Listening
Taste
Thanks
Music Where Me
Where Me Father
Brothers
Charles
Music Father Me
Got
Guess
Rock
Ray
Whatnot
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I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
Avicii / Dj
Bounce
Melody
Songwriters
Writing
Words
Forth
Ideal
Lyrics
Sing
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I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
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Hook
Instruments
Track
Everything Else
Main
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When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
Avicii / Dj
Daft
Electronic Music
Luke
Punk
Music Way Listening
Electronic
Steve
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If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.
Avicii / Dj
Easier
Proven
Remembered
Song
Work People Way
Work People Doing
Hit
Buck
Quick
Rewrite
Ways
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I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
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Clear
Easy
Galaxy
Iphone
Looks
Plenty
Products
Samsung
Telephones
Apple
Blackberry
Camera
Itself
Phone
Pictures
Sense
Takes
Tried
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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
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Done
Growing Up
Sound
Love Music Done
Blending
Experiment
Finding
Forced
Genres
In The Past
Inspirations
Listened
Maybe
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Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.
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My Own
Stand
Music Me Stand
Works
Club
Dominated
Festival
Generally
Largely
Obviously
Sets
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Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.
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Amazing
Deserve
Feels
Grew
Hard
Important
No Reason
Reason
Song
Great Always Me
Great Amazing Me
Why
Great Amazing Always
Although
English
Days
First
Getting
Melodies
Right
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I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with training and stuff like that, and he's shown me a lot of things I can do on the road. We were trying to figure out something that I can do everywhere, like in my hotel room, so I don't have to have a gym.
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Gym
Hotel
Everywhere
Figure
Helps
Hotel Room
Personal Trainer
Shown
Trainer
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Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
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Dirty
Energetic
Exploring
Loses
Melody
Missing
Originality
Music People Feel
Touch
Drop
Music Looking People
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I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.
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Trust
Audience
Compare
Done
Judgement
My Own
Perspective
Work Music Done
Trust Work Music
Charts
Lose
Wider
Wider Audience
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There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'
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My Own
Seems
Spare Time
Track
Time Music Always
Time Music Me
Version
Benefit
Maybe
Spare
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A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
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Buddhism
Bunch
Hell
Lowest
Stuck
Taken
Myspace
Attached
Friend
Ended
Head
Just Kind
Level
Mine
Setup
Tried
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I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.
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Travel
Cards
Credit
Four
Protect
Stuff
Used
Also
Bag
Bought
Works
Case
Credit Cards
Passport
Small
Opposed
New One
Well
Pocket
Throw
Traveling
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A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.
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Able
Energy
Given
Night
Pride
Progress
Thinking
Lot
Adapt
Again
Any
Does
Take
Crowd
Dj
Entire
Far
Fly
Goes
Harmonic
Over
Practiced
Seamlessly
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I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it's weird to be in the same type setup as one of those. 'Cause I'm not really doing much, you know, like technically it's not that hard.
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Deep Inside
Guitar Player
Performing
Player
Type
Inside
Weird
Cause
Different Kind
Technically
Singer
Guess
Setup
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