Armin van Buuren Quotes

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Premier came into the picture when were starting to make our own beats and all that.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

One day, my mum bought me this music production software for my computer, and I started making beats... I realised it was more like production than a video game, but it was a video game when I was playing it. That's how I got into music production.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

I probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I started making beats in high school.

My job is to make beats and make something hot.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That's how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.

There's actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

I'm a producer, not just a beatmaker but a producer.

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.