Words matter. These are the best Diplo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve been in jail a couple times. I’ve been caught shoplifting.
If I make a song, and it’s my song, like ‘Lean On,’ we’re going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That’s the model I want to explore.
PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
A lot of DJs don’t realize they’re here today and gone tomorrow. They’re literally taking jets to every show. It’s crazy how much money they’re spending.
When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading ‘Adbusters’ and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.
My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn’t like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
Snapchat’s the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.
When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.
Man, I don’t got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it’s Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt – I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people ’cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples’ brands and help them learn a little bit.
Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they’ve done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.
A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I’m inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz ’cause they’re doing things that are so different. I like how they’re introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
When I worked with M.I.A., who was, like, the coolest person back then, she was just a girl I met on the Internet. Or even when I met Azealia Banks on Myspace, I never thought, ‘Oh, she’s cool.’ I just loved what she was doing. So I’ve always been like that. And I think, as a producer, that’s what you’ve gotta do.
When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that’s exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.
I have heard, ‘Never go to bed angry,’ and that makes sense. Unless you’re always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.
Attention. That’s all girls want.
People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we’ve ever had before.
I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you’re busy, for sure.
In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music… We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.
As a DJ, it’s my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that’s coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I’ve always gravitated to something that’s just different, you know?
You just have to do; you can’t live by the rules of what you’re supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
All I know is don’t ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can’t step into that arena.
I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren’t right.
Every day is work for me, but it’s also a party. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.
I’m not a superstar, per se… but I’m a musical creator – a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.
You can never judge any music by their audience. That’s the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That’s always been first and foremost.
I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.
That’s what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
