Djs Quotes - Page 5

• I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
  MC's be out like bank robbers,
  Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
  DJ...the getaway driver.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Fleeing

  Song: Living In The World Today

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• I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.

  Paul van Dyk

  Country, Dirty, Kids

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• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  Kaskade

  Stars, Becoming, Producers

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• I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Echoes, Quality, Use

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• DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

  Martin Garrix

  Inspiration, Play, Track

  Source: elliesimpsonblog.wordpress.com

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• I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.

  Erol Alkan

  Thinking, Two Sides, Creative

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

  Neil Armstrong

  Jobs, Party, People

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

  Georgie Fame

  West, Firsts, Fantastic

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• I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew, like Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but I heard "Who Got the Props" by Black Moon, and I went up to this kid in my school with the Walkman on and was like, "What is this? You must tell me how I can get this now." Because there was no Shazam or googling lyrics.

  Mark Ronson

  New York, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alex Riley and I will be driving from live event to live event and if Ke$ha comes on it is blasted throughout the entire car and we are singing at the top of our lungs. So if you ever see A-Ry and me in a car you might catch us in an embarrassing moment of two 30-year-old grown men screaming 'You know we're Superstars.' We are who we are. DJ turn it up up up.

  The Miz

  Men, Wwe, Two

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• The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything is centred around the action from the stage. It doesn't even demand action coming from the crowd! Passive consumerism or something. Mayhem with an overwhelming sound that isn't actually good music. More like diarrhoea.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Light, Perfect, Sound

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

  Questlove

  Boys, Saws, Unwind

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• The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Song, Important, Lessons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.

  DJ Shadow

  Impact, Views, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Alternatives, Radio

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Thinking, Tuesday, Giving

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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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• Even though I'm out there as an artist, I continue droppin' mixtapes, I continue doin' this and continue showin' DJs love personally. That's why I continue doin' a lot of things other artists don't do.

  Ace Hood

  Artist, Mixtapes

  Source: djbooth.net

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• If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.

  Rian Hughes

  Media, Convenience, Disco

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• Now I'm able to play on the main stage and play my own tracks and the crowd likes them. I feel like a lot the other DJs play a lot of the same songs, and not to knock them, but it's important to me to go up there and sort of sneak in a bunch of stuff the other guys aren't playing.

  A-Trak

  Song, Sneak In, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Dog, Dutch, Superstar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do with it, and it's like I'm not a killer man , I'm a musician, I'm a DJ we got like a different heart. Ya know back then when rappin' was fun, and we could immolate being gangstas; ya know Dr. Dre made the hardest gangsta rap records in the world, that didn't necessarily make him a gangsta. It was all like ya know : character, we were all in character.

  DJ Quik

  Fun, Stupid, Rap

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• I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Cat, People, Doubt

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.

  David Guetta

  Music, Machines, Use

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