Kenny Beats Quotes

Making dance music was one of the best things I did in my life. I traveled the world; I met the most amazing fans. I got a lot of respect from doing it.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.

The tour is like our bread and butter. You don't really get to experience the band unless you see us live.

My focus was, and still is, totally on making music, getting on the road and performing live.

Pay-per-view events for us were really just another show while we were out on a road tour.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.

I'm in a band, I sing live.

We love to make records, and we love to tour.

We've been touring ever since we were able to afford to buy a van, and I don't think we'll ever stop until something falls off or is irreparable.

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.

The fact is, for the first 10 years I toured as a solo artist, I wasn't playing any of the songs I didn't write or sing.

I've wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the 'Machine' record.