Tiesto Quotes

I think my set is more so mixed in everything. It's not just EDM.

I don't have a genre because I play lots of different music that people would say are different genres.

Many people have eclectic tastes. Many people like to listen to all kinds of different music. I mean, I do; I'll listen to many different styles inside a day, a week, a month, a year. It doesn't matter.

We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I'm literally into any type of music imaginable.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.

But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

I listen to all kinds of music. The Calling, Blink 182, Bruce Springsteen, I mean, it's everything.

I have quite catholic taste in music.

I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.