Erol Alkan Quotes

#1. You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

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#2. You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

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#3. There was certainly a space I felt for me, don't complain about it not being there, make it.

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#4. I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.

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#5. Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

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#6. All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

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#7. I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

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#8. I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.

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#9. If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.

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#10. Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.

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#11. Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.

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#12. I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.

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#13. There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

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#14. It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.

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#15. When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

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#16. Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.

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#17. Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

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#18. Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

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#19. I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

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#20. I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.

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#21. I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

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#22. One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.

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#23. Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. # RIP6MIX

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#24. Everyone is going to prang out at some point. I don't worry about that stuff too much because most things can be sorted out with a chat, a cup of tea and an arm wrestle.

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#25. I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

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