A-Trak Quotes

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• It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

  A-Trak

  Integrity, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

  A-Trak

  Play, Guy, Vinyl

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.

  A-Trak

  Mood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

  A-Trak

  Amazing Music, Heard

  Source: www.gq.com

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• What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

  A-Trak

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

  A-Trak

  Play, Important, Djs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

  A-Trak

  Kids, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

  A-Trak

  Years, America, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

  A-Trak

  Ducks, Sound, Sauce

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

  A-Trak

  Ideas, Gears, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

  A-Trak

  Hip Hop, Labels, Hips

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

  A-Trak

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

  A-Trak

  Use, Turntables, Djs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Building the scene, going out and doing shows and connecting with the fans, cultivating the fanbase in all these cities. I'm very glad that it's happening.

  A-Trak

  Cities, Fans, Going Out

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I like getting feedback from people who show a lot of potential, and it's exciting to witness to new talents developing and bourgeoning. I always try to stay around the newest stuff, I don't like to stay with something that's kind of old or approaching it.

  A-Trak

  People, Trying, Talent

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.

  A-Trak

  Couple, Responsibility, Culture

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.

  A-Trak

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.

  A-Trak

  Thinking, Important, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There's a bit less elbow room and latitude to take it somewhere else, at least at festivals. In the club you can do whatever you want but at festivals, especially Ultra, nowadays the crowd wants to hear our songs.

  A-Trak

  Song, Somewhere Else, Elbows

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

  A-Trak

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

  A-Trak

  Rap, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

  A-Trak

  Running, Song, Fun

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.

  A-Trak

  Djs, Productions, Dislike

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I have a radio show on Sirius XM. I put it up as a free download on my Soundcloud and on iTunes. That's a portal for me once a month, to play songs I know aren't getting played on that station the rest of the week.

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  Song, Play, Months

  Source: www.gq.com

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