Erol Quotes

#1. Clearly we're Sorceri." Sabine gestured at her resplendent self. "Ergo, we'd enjoy some Sorceri wine."
"Don't got it."
Sabine quirked a red brow. "Do you not? Check with Erol, shifter. He'll have an emergency bottle for me
because whenever I arrive, it's an emergency.

Kresley Cole

#2. 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.

Erol Alkan

#3. 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.

Erol Alkan

#4. 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.

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#6. When you fall in love, you land on a cloud.

Erol Ozan

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

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#9. Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Erol Ozan

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

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#12. 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.

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#14. You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Erol Ozan

#15. 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

Erol Alkan

#16. Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Erol Ozan

#17. 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.

Erol Alkan

#18. Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Erol Ozan

#19. 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.

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#22. Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about something, it's the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS

Erol Ozan

#23. Happiness is the most tired word in any language.

Erol Ozan

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

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#26. 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.

Erol Alkan

#27. In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.

Erol Ozan

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

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#30. Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

Erol Ozan

#31. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.

Erol Ozan

#32. 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.

Erol Alkan

#33. 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.

Erol Alkan

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

Erol Alkan

#35. 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.

Erol Alkan

#36. Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.

Erol Ozan

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

Erol Alkan