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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
AviciiAvicii People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
AviciiAvicii I can’t tell where the journey will end But I know where to start.
AviciiAvicii I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
AviciiAvicii 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.
AviciiAvicii If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way.
AviciiAvicii I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don’t always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I’m traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.
AviciiAvicii I have always been mainstream. It’s so weird, because I don’t see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
AviciiAvicii I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
AviciiAvicii I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
AviciiAvicii I’ve always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
AviciiAvicii It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.
AviciiAvicii To me, I’m always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that’s the most important thing in making music for me.
AviciiAvicii I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.
AviciiAvicii Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
AviciiAvicii 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.
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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Respect and gratitude are the last pillars of the lost world.
Lesha VergnolLesha Vergnol Love what you have, before time teaches you to love what you lost.
Jessica PickardJessica Pickard Having one true person by your side is worth anything you lost.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi BerraYogi Berra Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.
Kevin GatesKevin Gates We lose the importance of life because we have lost ourselves.
David GogginsDavid Goggins
