Mannie Fresh Quotes

I've always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn't changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It's a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.

I just think a lot of people don't give credit to EDM producers or DJs. People think they're just button pushers and just get on stage and don't really perform.

For me, I have the highest amount of respect for DJs. There's a real skill set and ability to hold a crowd's attention for four to five hours, especially with an R&B/hip-hop and open-format music.

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

I love music - in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around.

With the 'iCarly' soundtrack, I didn't get to write any of the songs. I just picked songs that meant a lot to me that I really liked.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I'm always the person that is DJing spaces and moments. I'm crazy about music.

Here's the thing: My hobby is to DJ. I just love music, so I can hear the beginning of a beat, the beginning of a melody, and think of the words, think of the name of the song, think of the hook, and just go there.

'Trouble Maker' was a project that worked whenever a song that fit the concept came in.

I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.