Avicii Quotes

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.

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

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

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.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

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.

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.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

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

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.

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.

I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.

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.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

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.'

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

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

You Make Me"
(feat. Salem Al Fakir)

[Vocals by Salem Al Fakir]

We are one,
One for sure.
All united,
You'll want some more.

Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!
Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!

We are one,
One for sure.
All united,
You'll need no more

Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!
Oh Oh Oh Oh

All my life I've been, I've been waiting for someone like you (yeah)
All my life I've been, I've been waiting for someone like you (yeah)

I've been looking for someone like you (yeah)
I've been waiting for someone like you (like you [x4])

You make me!

[Instrumental break]

We are one,
One's for sure.
All united,
You'll want some more.

Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!
Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!

We are one,
One's for sure.
All united,
You'll need no more

Oh Oh Oh Oh
You make me!
Oh Oh Oh Oh

All my life I've been, I've been waiting for someone like you (yeah)
All my life I've been, I've been waiting for someone like you (yeah)

I've been looking for someone like you (yeah)
I've been waiting for someone like you (like you [x4])

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Feeling my way through the darkness
Guided by a beating heart
I can't tell where the journey will end
But I know where to start

They tell me I'm too young to understand
They say I'm caught up in a dream
Well life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes
Well that's fine by me