96 Quotes by Jonas Blue

What is pop music? It's not a genre. It's just the music that is popular at a given point in time.

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.

Even when I'm travelling - which is when I do most of my writing - I have a little portable keyboard.

I find in America, actually, I actually prefer it because it's all about energy. It's all about making everyone feel happy and smiling. In the U.K. sometimes people are a bit too concerned about, 'Did you play that track? Did you play that track?' It's not so much about the music in the U.K.

Before I hit any country I always do my research. I look at what's on the chart there, what's worked in the last few years. As a deejay, as a producer, that's when I get editing. I bring my own edits of tracks that are really cool and happening out there.

I'm really not one of those deejays who go, 'I play music that I like.' I play it for the crowd. I believe that's what a deejay should do.

That's the whole part about being a deejay: You've got to make sure you are prepared. At the end of the day, you do have your genre - house music, dance music - but there are many different ways of playing that.

I try and have two to four days a month to just be at home.