DJ Premier Quotes

I always like to do something different in every song.

I always make a point to make my records different. Let's say I have a record that's influenced by hip-hop in an abstract way; for the next record, I'd try not to do that. They are all connected in a personal way but it's important not to repeat myself, because then I can always learn something about myself through my work.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

It's so wide; that's what I love most about my career. It's been varied, and the music has been varied, because I find myself getting bored pretty easily. So for me, to work in the studio has been great. I didn't go on the road; I just worked on a different project every day, a different kind of music, and that's the challenge I love.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.