Calvin Trillin Quotes

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I've been DJing since I was in high school.

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

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.

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

I always knew I wanted to do something in entertainment. Since I could not sing, had no rhythm, and did not want to be a baby mama, I thought I would explore the Video DJ route.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

I started D.J.-ing my first year of college just for fun and to pay bills.

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

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

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 think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

I just wanna be a DJ!

Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

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

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.

My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

I begged and begged, and my uncle gave me his old turntables. It was one hi-fi and one old Stereo Lab turntable and a rusty mixer. I was really chuffed. I kept that for five years - that's where I learned to mix.

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

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

I want to be in the booth any day - Sunday, Monday, Wednesday - it doesn't matter to me. I'm hooked. I love it.