Avicii Music Quotes & Sayings

These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son of God and to weaken your resolve to keep your promises to Him. These trials are often camouflaged, making them difficult to identify. They take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us. A real but manageable test for one can be a fiery trial for another. — Neil L. Andersen

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

The poet he was escorting into Wales was a Horus-headed dud of some personal magnetism. The hair was feathered gell, the nose hooked. He stared at me and he didn't. His eyes belonged to a magician; one bored into you, right through the lens into the depths of the vitreous humor - while the other popped and wobbled in the style of Ben Turpin. He folded in on himself, profile sharp as an axe. A labrys. This man would have no problem seeing around a corner. — Iain Sinclair

I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself. — Nia Sanchez

God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details. — John Darnielle

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music. — 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 want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it. — Ray Bradbury

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity. — Ron Paul

Some general advice about writing:
WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. — Brian K. Vaughan

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

Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone - I am not alone. — Eleesha

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 have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. — Avicii

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination. — Bill Rancic

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

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

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

Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. — Avicii

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is. — Avicii

My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. — 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

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

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome. — Avicii