Avicii Quotes

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

I can't tell where the journey will end But I know where to start

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

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.

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

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." When I'm off I just don't want to hear anything.

I'm a DJ. I get the party started.

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

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.

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.

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

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.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

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

I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

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.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most important thing in making music for me.

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.

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 Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.