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Reworking other tracks is also quite cool.
I love playing music no matter where it is.
I can sleep ANYWHERE! I just love to sleep.
I want to learn how to do balloon art and make dolphins.
I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
I would love to work with Pharrell one day. Like, my biggest dream.
In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.
For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.
The hardest part for me is to finish a track. I start new projects all the time.
I'm always excited to see the reaction of the crowd when I'm playing a new song.
I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.
I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.
Of course it's super special to create your own records; it really is a part of my self.
I would like to collaborate with Lana Del Rey . She just has the perfect voice! I love it.
I love Disclosure. Dillon Francis. Bauuer. Flosstradamus. I listen to a lot of different genres.
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.
I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.
America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.
It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
I'm not sure if I'll make the Europeans feel bad, but I'll say it like this: The U.S. crowd is even better than the European crowd.
Of course I would love to have another track as big as 'Animals,' but 'Animals' became big also because of luck, the timing, and hype.
For me, I don't feel all the pressure. I make music, and I release it because I like it myself and I want my friends to hear it from me.
If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.
It still feels unreal sometimes. It all happened so fast, like an explosion you know. But I am really hyped about the success of 'Animals' and 'Wizard'.
I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'm going to make. I'm going to make whatever I feel like making.
Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.
I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.
I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.
I promised to finish school, so I'll figure it out I guess. Besides, I'm on a special school for musicians and artists, so I'm not the only one with this life style.
I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.
I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
I like myself still kind of being... because DJs used to be the background guy - the guy who was just doing the music - I see myself more as that guy than being on the stage.
I love Deadmau5 as a producer, as a person. He's super interesting. He's very funny to follow on social media. But as a producer, he gets every single credit I can give him. He's nuts.
Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.
Radio helps you break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.
I always try to evolve my sound - innovate, improve, be different but still Martin Garrix. It all starts with an idea in my head, which I work on until it starts to shape itself into a track.
The bigger your songs get, the bigger the festivals you play at will be, until you make it to Ultra. It happened super quick for me. I'm still in shock, actually. I have to pinch myself a lot.
It doesn't matter how tired I am; I will always still be happy. As soon as you go onstage, you get adrenaline. You hear the crowd: they're screaming your name. They have posters. The energy gives you energy.
DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.
I was really young when I signed with Spinnin' Records, and the huge success of 'Animals' hit me by surprise. I didn't expect my life to turn like that at all. But it was a very welcome surprise, to say the least!
I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.
Of course I party. Of course I go chase girls. Again, for me, balance is important. One hundred per cent, my work goes first. Martin Garrix is my main priority. But to maintain Martin Garrix, I have to enjoy my downtime.
Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.
I love decompressing with friends. Sometimes when a tour is long, I'll fly friends over for the last part of the tour. I love to bring family with me, and spending time with them and my family is really the way to decompress.
Now you are seeing electronic dance music producers on TV, on talk shows. It's so great to see the festivals growing bigger and bigger, it's like one big family that's all partying with each other. I love being a part of that.
It's a weird sound [ "Animals"] inspired by a hip hop drum loop. I listen to a lot of hip hop tracks and it's not used quite often in House currently. I chopped up the loop and edited it so you wouldn't recognize the original.
I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
I didn't start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.