Avicii Quotes

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

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

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

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.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

Even if I did work with a big producer, you try not to do the same kind of records as everybody else.

If I can't be honest with music, forget it.

I don't like to just be simple. Even though some of my stuff can seem simple at times, I like to write in a way that, when you listen to it over and over again, you hear something new, and it requires you to think.

Even within K-pop, there should be more representation. It's not just groups, and it's not just incredibly produced, highly choreographed pieces. There are vocalists, there's R&B, there's hip-hop, there are other types of people and voices. There's space for all of that to be shared and to be appreciated.

My muse has always been the piano.

What I ended up learning was that I had to do what I do well, and do it really well and say, 'Maybe there is no pop music that sounds like this now, but I can make it so maybe tomorrow what I like can be what everybody likes.'

I always strive to make my music unique.

I had to learn about patience, to let the music get its own spirit and voice.

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us than that.

When you got a sound that don't sound like nobody else and it's brand new, you've got to feed it to 'em. You've got to force it on 'em.

It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different so people have a new experience.