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Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.
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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.
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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.
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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
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I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.
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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.
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I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
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Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.
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Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.
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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.
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I see the value in every kind of music, even country.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'
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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.
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
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I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.
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I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
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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.
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Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
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