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Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.
I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.
If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.
I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!
Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.
The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.
If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself it makes the sound more special.
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death.
Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up.
If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.
I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old.
Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.
I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.
If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.
Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.
Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.
Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?
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.
I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.
I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
I spend a lot of time talking to young and emerging producers on Twitter, feeding back thoughts and encouraging them.
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.
A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.
I have my own charity organization in Berlin called Ruckenwind, which supports kids from - ya - not ideal backgrounds.
It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.
It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad!
I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.