Avicii Quotes

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.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

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

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to me if it's a remix or an original production. I don't think about it as, 'Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.'

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

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

I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording.

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

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.

You can call me a beat-maker, but I'm a record producer.

I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. 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 probably started trying to make beats at around 12.

I started making beats in high school.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.