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Diplo Quotes

Enjoy the top 74 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Diplo.

“As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.”
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People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'

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I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

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“The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.”

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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

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“If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.”

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“Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.”

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“I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.”

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“I see the value in every kind of music, even country.”

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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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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

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“Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.”

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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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“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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“All I know is don't ever get into a feud with Taylor Swift. She has, like, 50 million people that will die for her. You can't step into that arena.”

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“All of the best songs happen on a whim.”

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“Attention. That's all girls want.”

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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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“I never became a producer to go to parties or wear nice clothes or put sales figures on my Wiki page.”

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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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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

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“I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.”

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“I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.”

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“Man, I don't got any real fans. Just fair-weather ones and groupies.”

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“New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.”

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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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“A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.”

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“As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.”

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“Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.”

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“Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older than him.”

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“How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.”

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“I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.”

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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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“I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.”

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“I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.”

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“I've probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a park, to, like, Madonna's house, to a rave in Africa.”

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“I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.”

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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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“New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.”

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“The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.”

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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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“Someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty.”

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“It's never too late to change your luck”

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“Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.”

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“The monsters in my head are scared of love ...”

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“Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.”

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“All over the world kids and women [are] getting killed right now over beliefs, this is silly to get angry over. If it bothers you just don't attend I'm down for anything positive but this doesn't affect our parties too much. I'm not the promoter, I actually had nothing to do with the rules being implemented, but I do agree with my team. And cause of who I am, I'm the de facto speaker. I have thick skin so u guys that consider yourself PLUR can attack me all you want it doesn't bother me. I'm just here for the music.”