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

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• ‟ I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

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• ‟ My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

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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 of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

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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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• ‟ Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

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• ‟ I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it.

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• ‟ I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

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• ‟ I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

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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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• ‟ There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

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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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• ‟ 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. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.

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• ‟ For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

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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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