Dustin Diamond Quotes

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

My music isn't mainstream music.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

I associate creativity with independent music.

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

We are very, very fortunate to have built a career based on playing the kind of music we play. In a lot of ways, it's a very eclectic style. It's not pop; it's not mainstream; so the fact that we have been able to have the career that we have had internationally, with all the success we've had, it's like a miracle. It's amazing.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.