Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Diplo - Page 2

When we think about big records, a lot of producers are thinking of how to make it as standard as possible. I think those days are gone. I think you have to surprise the audience in 2015.

You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.

I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.

If I make a song, and it's my song, like 'Lean On,' we're going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That's the model I want to explore.

We first started to rent old VFW halls in Philly or whatever; we rented kegs and did parties and played our own music. We had to find a way to do it because nobody else was helping us, and I think now it's important to keep those dialogues happening, those parties happening.

Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

K-pop is a weird term because K-pop has everything - rap records - it's very pop-sounding; there are really boy-band-sounding records.

In Philly, there are a lot of social programs. If you have a degree, you can go and apply. I was basically a social worker, but I became sort of a sub teacher in a special program, helping kids with reading or math. But we would also do plays, learn about music... We were doing lots of fun stuff, but that was such hard work.

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.

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

My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.

PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

The traditional media never gave Bernie Sanders the time of day. But he went viral the same way hip-hop and new dances go viral. And I'm part of that culture.

Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.

People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

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

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.

I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.

I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

It sucks for me, because now I have to not be as crazy as I am on the Internet. Which totally sucks, because it's not going to be fun anymore. But the repercussions are really bad. Like, Taylor Swift fans are really crazy. They threatened to murder me and stuff. It's really bizarre, and disgusting. They're the worst people in the world.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

If anyone takes me seriously then they actually must have a problem .. Music is fun its not algebra.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

I think kids have got to learn how to work with what's happening, work with social, work with everything. To complain about how things aren't the way they used to be.

America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

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.

Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

It's never too late to change your luck

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

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

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.

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