Deadmau5 Quotes

Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.

I'm not just trying to be good at one thing and then call it a day. I want to be like Bruno Mars.

We can be whatever we want to be. We can be a country band if we need to be. We can be a rock band if we need to be.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write.

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.

I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

Armaan has a simple approach and understands what a composer wants. I tell him, 'Give the song your own vibe but I will still come and fight with you and change it.'

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.

Always try and play with as many people as possible, even if it's not your style of music, because you will learn a lot.

I think, now that I've been writing songs in general, whether it's for the group or for me, I definitely feel like I got a little trigger happy, because it was so exciting to have production and create and put a lot in there.

Musically, my palette is eclectic.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

There's been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to sing classical music. I want to sing R&B. I want to be on Broadway. I just wanna sing. Whatever comes out of my mouth, that's what I want to do.

I think I'm gonna do more songs on my own.

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

I've been making music for so long, and the main hurdles I've run when dealing with any public exposure is that many of my projects are so different from each other.