David Guetta Quotes

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.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Inside a soul, there's a hero to discover

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

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.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Music. I live it and breathe it. It wakes me up in the morning, puts me to sleep at night and is with me all day.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

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.

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

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!'

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so some DJs started to use old disco records, but the B-sides and the acapellas, and we began producing beats with drum machines.

Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again

Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

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.

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.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

I wanna be a nice guy.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

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.

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.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.