Beats Quote by Diplo

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 started making beats in high school.

— Kenny Beats

I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.

— Smokepurpp

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old '50s and '60s pop and soul and doo-wop records.…

— G-Eazy

I started making beats when I was 13.

— Metro Boomin

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

— Mike Shinoda

I'm not only a DJ. I run my own record label and I work out of my own productions.

— Hardwell

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my hobbies.

— Jimmy O. Yang

That's something I want people to know, that I am a real DJ. I started as a DJ before I was even a producer.

— Hardwell

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

— David Guetta

I used to DJ in Atlanta, and that's how I kind of got into the music industry.

— Lil Jon

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of…

— Paul Oakenfold