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.
AVICIIWhen it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
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I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
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I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
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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.
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Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much.
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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.
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It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.
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I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.
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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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I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.
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When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
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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.
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I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.
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