David Guetta Quotes
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Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
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Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
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You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.
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I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
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When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.
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I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'
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Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
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I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.
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Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
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So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
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I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
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Kids listen to everything on the Internet.
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
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The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.
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Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
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I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
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I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
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I'm not limited.