Words matter. These are the best Kaskade Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life – it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that – has to be more than that.
There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it’s deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it’s so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn’t get any more rock n’ roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It’s really madness.
I DJ’d for years. I DJ’d in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, ‘Yeah, you guys don’t need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I’m selling music; I think I’m gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.’
Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.
Mix CDs are interesting. I’m known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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.
I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: ‘Oh my gosh, I’m gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.’
It’s weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I’ve done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It’s very, very strange for me. That’s where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It’s like a love affair.
I’m a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It’s a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.
I’m not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They’re stories about me and what I’m going through.
Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
For me, ‘Atmosphere’ was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I’m singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I’ve written instead of collaborating with people.
Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, ‘Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?’ I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
I don’t feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It’s great music.
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-’80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
I do feel like there’s a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music… It’s getting borderline absurd out there.
Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.
If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they’re still musical, and that’s why they have such a broad appeal.
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I’m writing my own album, I don’t have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
When you go see a good DJ, you’ll know it, man – you’ll know it in your bones. Between the guy who’s phoning it in and the guy who’s obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
It’s interesting: in the late ’80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment.
