Martin Garrix Quotes

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned because I listen to everything.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and I feel like I can pull ideas from practically anything. You name it - I'll probably like it.

I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.

I'm all over the place with what I listen to.

I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!

I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop.

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Be the artist you were born to be.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

I get to the point where I feel relaxed, and then I just shoot a ton of material and make a lot of different choices.

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art