Quotes About Djing

#1. 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

#2. Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

Diplo

#3. Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

DJ Shadow

#4. The best part about DJing a fashion show after-party or event is being able to correlate the emotions of the collection with music, just as you would for a show.

Mia Moretti

#5. I've made money doing things I love. DJing was a hobby. When I bought my turntables my mom said, "Oh what now, Taryn?" But it became pretty fruitful right away. I come from a very music-oriented family.

Taryn Manning

#6. I love DJing, and I love rocking out.

Jonathan Davis

#7. I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'

Kurtis Blow

#8. I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#9. When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.

Peter Hook

#10. I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

Avicii

#11. A very important thing about DJing that's missed nowadays is the trendsetting and the taste-making.

Laidback Luke

#12. And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there.

Jam Master Jay

#13. I think all of this - The Roots and DJing included - was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

Questlove

#14. I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.

Idris Elba

#15. I first got interested in DJing when I was a little kid. I just love music ... Music's my passion; it's always been my whole life.

Pauly D

#16. The art of DJing is sharing music with one another ... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

Kaskade

#17. What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.

Gonjasufi

#18. You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.

Aphex Twin

#19. Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.

Tiesto

#20. QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

#21. I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term that I hated. To me a celebrity DJ is someone that's on 'Big Brother' or in some kind of B-movie who gets a gig to DJ even though they're not talented enough to do it.

Mark Ronson

#22. DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Alexa Chung

#23. When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

Andy Rourke

#24. The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

Pedro Winter

#25. I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

Questlove

#26. I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Abbie Cornish

#27. I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

Idris Elba

#28. If I'm DJing a show, I will normally wear the designer I'm DJing for; if I'm DJing a party, I will most likely be wearing very high heels.

Chelsea Leyland

#29. I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

Mayer Hawthorne

#30. DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.

Mark Ronson

#31. Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

Taryn Manning

#32. It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.

Steve Aoki

#33. I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

Avicii

#34. The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

Diplo

#35. I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.

Tiesto