Djs Quotes - Page 9

• The way the music industry is now geared, it's fewer accolades towards new and upcoming acts. New bands offer bright creativity. It's a set format. A venue would rather hire a DJ than a band, and that's a problem.

  John Lydon

  Creativity, Band, Way

  Source: www.axs.com

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• The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Aka, Long

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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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• I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

  Josh Peck

  Writing, Hip Hop, Graffiti

  "Josh Peck Talks RED DAWN, How He Landed the Role, Watching the Original Film, Boot Camp Training, Working with Chris Hemsworth and Hopes to Direct". Interview, collider.com. November 20, 2012.

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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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• 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

  Productions, Dislike

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest-recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing but Crosby, Stills and Nash, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance.

  Meg Cabot

  Sleep, Gone, Eleven

  "The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth". Book by Meg Cabot, November, 2002.

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• I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime interview for Radio London or something. You wouldn't immediately associate the music on Ocean Of Sound with drivetime radio, but people found things that they liked, and the DJ was playing some records at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on a weekday.The man who was playing them said to me, "That Peter Brotzmann track, it's like having your head boiled in acid."

  David Toop

  Book, Ocean, Men

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I think if I lived in New York I would be really stressed out going out to a club and seeing a good DJ who's doing something on a similar level. I'm pretty critical of myself when it comes to the music. Maybe they're not doing as many samples or the samples aren't put together as specifically but it would stress me out to feel like I needed to be one upping someone. In Pittsburgh, I'm in my own world - I know I'm the guy doing this here.

  Girl Talk

  New York, Stress, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Speaking of WAMU, [bluegrass and old time music DJ] Ray Davis did a lot of work there. I've know Ray, I guess for 50 years - 40, or 50 years. And, he plays a lot of my records.

  Ralph Stanley

  Years, Play, Rays

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

  Pedro Winter

  Serious, Feds, Fed Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.

  Ice T

  Sports, Rap, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

  DJ Spooky

  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

  DJ Spooky

  Nuts, Kind, Spooky

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

  DJ Spooky

  Ironic, Style, Criticism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Morning, Car, Listening

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• I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.

  Martin Gore

  America, People, Facts

  "Martin Gore on new Depeche Mode CD, Frank Ocean". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, newsok.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I live in rural Alabama, and it's very conservative. I've had one guy say 'you can't be a minister and a DJ at the same time'. I thought 'how does someone get to choose what God has assigned me to do - God has given me a ministry.

  Robert Hood

  Guy, Doe, Alabama

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.

  Tiesto

  Blow, People, Sound

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

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• DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that Id like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.

  Travie McCoy

  Edm, Next Level, Records

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• Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name...
  ..DJ Abraham Lincoln

  Demetri Martin

  Powerful, Names, Sound

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