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38 quotes by Avicii

Tim Bergling (born 8 September 1989), better known by his stage name Avicii (/əˈviːtʃi/, a-VI-chee; stylized as ɅVICII or ◢ ◤ symbol), is a Swedish EDM DJ, remixer, and a country and electro house record producer. Avicii ranked 3rd on DJ Magazine ' s annual Top 100 DJs in 2012 and 2013 and has been nominated twice for a Grammy Award, once for his work on "Sunshine" with David Guetta in 2012 and once for his song "Levels" in 2013. Some of his...
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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... →

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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'm a DJ. I get the party started.

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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... →

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A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the... →

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Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

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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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A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my... →

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Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked.... →

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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

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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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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... →

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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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