Crowd Quote by Irv Gotti

When I started, DJs weren't in the media, electronic music wasn't in the sales charts and a DJ was the freak in the corner…

— Paul van Dyk

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

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

— Clive Davis

When we were doing music, that's how we did-we just did it for the music. We weren't thinking about money, we weren't thinking about…

— DJ Yella

Music was always a passion, but when I was a kid I didn't see it as a viable career.

— The-Dream

One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

— Erol Alkan

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

— Afrojack

I think not having come from the DJ world was an asset to me at first because I didn't have some of the habits…

— Porter Robinson

Obviously, with me being a DJ, I have a love for music. One day I was like, 'OK. I'm tired of playing everybody else's…

— Andre Drummond

I always knew I wanted to do something in entertainment. Since I could not sing, had no rhythm, and did not want to be…

— Karen Civil

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

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski