“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 feel fortunate that I’ve been surrounded by so many good people and my manager, and everyone who I’ve worked with has been with me from the start, and I think that’s really important.” ― Avicii
“Life’s a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.” ― Avicii
“I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it’s fun and it’s kind of glamorous.” ― 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 have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.” ― 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
“When I look back on my life, I think, ‘Whoa, did I do that?’ It was the best time of my life in a sense. It came with a price – a lot of stress, a lot of anxiety for me – but it was the best journey of my life.” ― Avicii
“It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.” ― 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 its something I take pride in being able to do.” ― Avicii
“Your whole life has been building up to this moment. Your whole life has been building up to this day. Every dream that moved you, every scar improved you, every voice around you tells you to believe.” ― Avicii
“It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.” ― Avicii
“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 a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.” ― Avicii
“It has to be something that feels right.” ― Avicii
“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.” ― Avicii
“I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and ’60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me into KISS and whatnot, so I guess that’s where I got my first taste for music.” ― Avicii
“Figure out what you’re most passionate about in life and what you’re good at. And the mixture between those two and then you should give it your all, all the time.” ― Avicii
“People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.” ― Avicii
“When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.” ― 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 judgment 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
“If I wanted to make a quick buck, there are 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 tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.” ― Avicii
“To me, I’m always trying to look for the energy.” ― 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
“I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.” ― 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
