Afrojack Quotes

I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

I never went to music school.

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

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.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

I think every singer should get a formal training in music.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

I wasn't very good at studies but was into a lot of extra-curricular activities. I used to play the keyboard and bass guitar in my school band and went on to study keyboard from Trinity College, London.

My mom is an elementary-school music teacher. For her, music is an educational tool.

What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

I decided to study music my last year in high school.