Idris Elba Quotes

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

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

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I started DJ-ing in the '90s. DJ-ing is in every record I do. When I make records I make them for DJs.

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

I started DJing when I was, like, 11.

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot of people started like that because it was all I had. I would just take rap records that I liked and just loop the beat by pressing pause and record and make, like, five minutes of these beats.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I really admire David Guetta; he's an unbelievable DJ and I love his style, his music and everything like that. So I look up to him.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.