Statik Selektah Quotes

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time.

For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

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.

I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

DJing is one of my hobbies.

It's always shocking to people, because sometimes when I go on the road and I DJ, they think I'm just gonna perform, so to see me really DJing and playing their favorite song and really rockin', it's a shock to people, and definitely to DJs.

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

I play a bunch of instruments.

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

I knew there was a way to blend records together, but I didn't know how to. This was haunting me when I was in my teens. In my frustration, I decided to start experimenting with electronics. I tested the torque factor on different turntables. I had to figure needles out. See, there are two kinds, elliptical and conical.

I love DJing, and I love rocking out.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.

I'm into sounds, man.

Me and my little cousin DJ John John, we used to always be DJing in the house. We never took it seriously.

I would always have turntable elements in my records even if it was just one scratch.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I want recording to be fun.

I love deejaying, of course; that's where my heart and my passion is.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

Every day I'm learning stuff. I started back in August with a DJ friend and since then I've been practicing and taking lessons every day.

Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow are going to blow your funky mind!