DJ Quotes
Straight from the booth to the crowd.
This collection features people describing life behind the decks, from an assiduous record collector to a club regular who keeps a crowd moving. Another names the producers who shaped their taste in sound. Continue exploring with Music.
I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
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At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ -...
We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I'll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.
Emotion Quotes
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
My two main trainers were John Dahmer and DJ Hyde. DJ Hyde mainly taught me how to be tough: I mean, the beatings that he used to give the students as far as wrestling initiations go were as tough as...
Identity Quotes
I collect records pretty assiduously, so I've got, like, a massive record collection. I still DJ.
I am the Crystal Palace DJ. I'm the guy who gets us going. I play the songs.
J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.
There aren't that many songs that pay homage to the DJ. They are the ones getting artists' music out there. They are the ones getting the club popping. But no one's giving them any love.
I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was just totally intrigued, because everything he played I'd never heard before and everything he did I'd never...
Music Quotes
I was DJing for this party promotion called 1st Flight Entertainment, having to DJ on the weekends and then also going to school in the same week. So I just figured out how to balance that, then make beats on...
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting.
When 'Joker' came out in '73, I finally got a viral hit. Every DJ who heard it played it.
Performance Quotes
I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some DJ that plays between sets. I have a bigger brand than that.
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