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.
AVICIITo 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.
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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 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.
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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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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I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.
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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.
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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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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
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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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Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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