67 Quotes by Avicii

I'm a DJ. I get the party started.

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.