Djs Quotes · Page 2

This is the biggest night of my entire life and everybody's career rides on my DJ set

— Pauly D

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

— Rachel Cohn

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

— Max Joseph

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

— Girl Talk

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

— Tiesto

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

— Steven Van Zandt

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

— Afrika Bambaataa

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first…

— A-Trak

There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't…

— DJ Shadow

We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the…

— Richard Baraniuk

So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of…

— DJ Spooky

I believe the biggest advancement in DJ culture is that DJs are being vocal and are a voice to raise the consciousness…

— DJ QBert

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than…

— Larry Lujack

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance…

— David Guetta

I was like 4 years old when I started playing piano, and I was like 10 years old when I saw a…

— Hardwell

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people…

— A-Trak

DJs should not be just pressing play with a USB stick, or getting wasted and throwing cake. I don't think [stunts like…

— Paul van Dyk

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even…

— Mayer Hawthorne

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to…

— Mark Ronson

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland…

— Afrojack

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have…

— Avicii

There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without…

— Meg Cabot

The fact that Perez Hilton calls me 'Saman' - it's the most homophobic thing ever. The perpetuation of [the idea that I'm]…

— Samantha Ronson

As a matter of fact it wasn't until after BIG passed and stupid rumors went around that I had something to do…

— DJ Quik

I remember I did quite a lot of interviews when the book and the CD came out, and I did a drivetime…

— David Toop

The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

— Nicky Romero

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

— A-Trak

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

— Kaskade

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

— A-Trak

Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.

— Shannyn Sossamon

India is such a great host to not just me, but so many other DJs.

— Hardwell

My job is to be a DJ and make people dance so if people dance, I've done my job.

— Jeff Mills

I started DJ-ing in the '90s. DJ-ing is in every record I do. When I make records I make them for DJs.

— Lil Jon

I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

— Idris Elba

Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln

— Demetri Martin

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops

— Chuck D

It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

— A-Trak

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a…

— David Guetta

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

— Eric Lau