Best 40 quotes of David Guetta on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

I always knew I wanted to make music and share music. I followed my dreams and my passion. Et voila! And now it means not just me, but our community, have a voice. There was no internet, twitter, facebook, or instagram back then; now people with shared passions can unite their voice to share their values and thoughts, be heard, and make a difference. It's amazing - everyone can have a voice - and, as ONE, it can be incredible.

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 can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

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.

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 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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Inside a soul, there's a hero to discover

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!'

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

I wanna be a nice guy.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

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.

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.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

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.

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.

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.

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

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

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.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

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.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

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

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

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

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.