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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that. – Avicii
I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it’s fun and it’s kind of glamorous. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it. – Avicii
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I’ve grown up listening to all kinds of music. – Avicii
I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it’s like, it’s a different kind of performing, it’s not really… You’re not performing like a guitar player or a singer is performing, you know what I mean? So it’s weird to be in the same type setup as one of those. ‘Cause I’m not really doing much, you know, like technically it’s not that hard. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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. – Avicii
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.’ – Avicii
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much. – Avicii
