Avicii Quotes
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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 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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It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
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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 head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
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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 have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
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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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I have my guy Semi who is my on the road - he's my personal trainer. He helps me out with training and stuff like that, and he's shown me a lot of things I can do on the road. We were trying to figure out something that I can do everywhere, like in my hotel room, so I don't have to have a gym.
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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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I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
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I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
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I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.