Tiesto Quotes

I'ma work with Kanye. I'ma try my damndest.

I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe in making good music. I'm not trying to section myself off into just making hard-core rap music.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.

I was a Kimya fan for a long time, a Moldy Peaches fan, so I got to work on her 'Thunder Thighs' record a little bit and we became friends and just started writing songs.

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that's why the records came out so good.

I like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

I'd love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.

Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop.

I listen to unhealthy amount of Kanye. The Fugees. Also, 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.'

I'm just real in-tune with music - I really listen to R&B more than I listen to rap.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I'm not really into rap.

'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay, depending on my mood. And my favorite song of all time is 'Always and Forever' by Heatwave.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.