Top 32 Buuren Quotes
#1. My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.
Armin Van Buuren
#2. The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible.
Armin Van Buuren
#3. Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
Armin Van Buuren
#4. I'm not a jukebox; I don't play exactly what the crowd wants to hear - that doesn't make sense. But, I do look at people requests. At the end of the day, they are the ticket payers and they are the ones that come to the show. If I played music that purely entertains me, I'd play very weird music.
Armin Van Buuren
#5. Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I try to go running at least three times a week and spend at least a day without turning my laptop on and spend it with my wife and daughter.
Armin Van Buuren
#6. I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
Armin Van Buuren
#7. Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
Alfred Armand Montapert
#9. I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.
Armin Van Buuren
#10. To get at the cause for a thing, we must study the effect.
Agatha Christie
#11. Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.
Robert Jordan
#12. I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved.
Armin Van Buuren
#13. The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.
George W. Bush
#14. We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.
Armin Van Buuren
#15. I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison.
Armin Van Buuren
#16. I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.
Mark Owen
#17. I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'
Armin Van Buuren
#18. Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#19. It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living ... Music is essential for my life.
Armin Van Buuren
#20. I recommend everyone who DJ's to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ's in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.
Armin Van Buuren
#21. With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still have affection for my earlier stuff, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as 'Weasel.'
Dave Cooper
#22. In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it.
Armin Van Buuren
#23. I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.
Chang-rae Lee
#24. She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#25. You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.
Armin Van Buuren
#26. It doesn't affect the way I feel about you, but is it wrong that I want you to experience the joy I've found in books?
Laura Trentham
#28. I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.
Armin Van Buuren
#29. As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
Armin Van Buuren
#30. It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.
Armin Van Buuren
#31. All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.
Ed Garvey
#32. I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
Armin Van Buuren
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