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To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
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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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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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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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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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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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I see the value in every kind of music, even country.
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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 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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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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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 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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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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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 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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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
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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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Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
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People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'
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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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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
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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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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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PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.