Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on… — Moby Copy Share Image
DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the… — Paul Oakenfold Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Nowadays, all the people who are major are just DJs. The lighting and all that makes the show - without all of… — AraabMuzik Copy Share Image
My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my… — Chad Channing Copy Share Image
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I've been getting really into mixing, and there's kinda like an art to it I think. I feel like I still have… — Chris Baio Copy Share Image
I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing.… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
It was mix tapes, that's my story, I did a lot of mix tapes, that's what I started doing when I was… — Slim Thug Copy Share Image
Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is… — Frankie Knuckles Copy Share Image
The latest trend seems to be these DJs doing pre-recorded sets, in perfect pitch with the lights & acts on stage. Everything… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was… — Jam Master Jay Copy Share Image
I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew,… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere.… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
[DJ Ill Will] already knew I had the music talent prior to meeting him in person, I guess when he met me… — Kid Ink Copy Share Image
People think my career started when I sent that tape to Renaissance. I’d actually been working hard for seven years before I… — John Digweed Copy Share Image
If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and… — John Digweed Copy Share Image
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance… — David Guetta Copy Share Image
Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute.… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't… — TyDi Copy Share Image
At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big… — A-Trak Copy Share Image