David Guetta Quotes

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.

I have done a bit of recording and the songs are available on iTunes, and I've got some nice comments. It's something I enjoy doing, but I'm not looking for a singing career any time soon. As long as one person gets enjoyment out of it, I'm happy to make it available.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.

I always wanted the world to hear my music, but I didn't know how I was gonna go about it.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved.

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.

That would be awesome, to be totally making records whenever I want and to play a show and have a few hundred thousand people there at any city you go to because people know you and your music.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

I didn't realize how polarized an industry like music can be.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

Instead, of worrying if something will be a hit, bands need to go out and make good music, get a following, play live. That's how you make a career these days.

I am making good music, and I want people to listen to it.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!