Funk Quote by Miho Hatori

I really got interested in the DJ side. I mean, I guess I was some kind of DJ in Japan already, but the hip-hop…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

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

— Lil Jon

I first started coming to Ibiza as a DJ; my debut set was at Sankeys with Duke Dumont. I wasn't really in the clubs,…

— Jax Jones

I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall…

— DJ Khaled

I came back to the Mumbai music industry after 10 years.

— Jeet Gannguli

I had a few DJs in my neighbourhood that would play music in the streets. There was no hip-hop yet; there were just DJs…

— Gza

I used to do this one club called New York Sound Factory where I played house, hip-hop, and dancehall. I was one of the…

— Lil Jon

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

— Pete Seeger

I arrived in Tokyo in around '81. Around that time, I visited London for about two months - it was the period just before…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and I used…

— Giles Deacon

It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The…

— Frankie Valli

Great music can come from anywhere around the globe. And there has always been a music business. It just wasn't recorded, nor was it…

— Seymour Stein