David Guetta Quotes
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Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.
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I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.
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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.
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I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.
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I wanna be a nice guy.
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
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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.
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My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
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Be Love; there is nothing greater.
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I want to party in space because I make alien music.
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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!'
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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!
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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.
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Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
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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.
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Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.
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Every time I come with an album I try to do something different and obviously my life has an influence on how I feel and the type of message I want to give with the music.
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You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.
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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.
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My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
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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.
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
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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.
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Kids listen to everything on the Internet.
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I want to see unity. I want to see peace. I want people to be free to speak, be educated. I want people to be able to feed themselves.
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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.
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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.
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I want to support the United Nations who can share our voice and make us heard. What they do makes the world a better place; if each of us can just give a word to their cause, it will only get better.
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