Avicii Quotes & Sayings

“There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.”

“I'm a DJ. I get the party started.”

“Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.”

“It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.”

“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 I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.”

“I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.”

“Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.”

“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.”

“A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.”

“When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.”