Djs Quotes - Page 2

• I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

  DJ Shadow

  Integrity, Kids, I Dont Care

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2012

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• Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen.

  Jeff Mills

  Opportunity, People, Trying

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• When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction I want from the crowd.

  DJ Shadow

  Looks, Crowds, Want

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.

  Tiesto

  Play, People, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• DJs and people in the street know what they like.

  Roy Ayers

  People, Streets, Knows

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• Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

  Eric Lau

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Knowing

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• Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

  Vikram Seth

  Fate, Too Late, Late

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• One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

  Erol Alkan

  Past, Opportunity, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them

  Paul van Dyk

  Leadership, Music, Creating

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• Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same thing within a DJ set.

  Richie Hawtin

  Next, Emotion, Storytelling

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• I think for most new kids it’s important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able to produce something that’s not there yet . . . If you want to be unique and you want to be a big DJ, create your own style, create your own signature.

  Nicky Romero

  Kids, Unique, Thinking

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• I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

  Ludacris

  Technology

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• I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

  Steve Aoki

  Song, Resilience, Details

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• I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

  David Guetta

  Inspirational, Dance, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.

  David Bowie

  World, Know How, Whole

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. 2002.

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.

  Swizz Beatz

  Prom

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• I like a challenge. I need to feel passionate about something. If I'm not passionate about it, I can't stand it. It has to feel real. DJ'ing, touring, charity work - anything.

  Tiesto

  Real, Challenges, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

  Zedd

  Song, Play, Two

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• I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

  Rachel Cohn

  Badass, Want, Snob

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.12, Egmont UK

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• I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

  Idris Elba

  Ends

  "Idris Elba: 'My film about Nelson Mandela is hands down the best'". Interview with Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Culture

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• Since the early days of humankind, dancing was always an expression of feeling good, and making someone feel good is the main intention of DJ'ing. I don't see the point of playing a record that makes people stand there, look at you and say “Umm, very interesting

  Paul van Dyk

  Expression, People, Dancing

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• I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

  Russell Peters

  Harsh, Critics

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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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