David Guetta

“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.”

“When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.”

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

“I'm not limited.”

“Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.”

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

“Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.”

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

“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.”

“Kids listen to everything on the Internet.”

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

“I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.”

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

“I wanna be a nice guy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.”