Diplo Quotes

As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I'm a human being, too, and like most humans, I have interest in many different types of music.

I don't want to limit myself to any genre or language or a type. I want to always surprise the audience and, hence, keep raising the bar for myself.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Trying new things and experimenting is something I push myself to do. It's one thing to have love for all different kinds of music; it's another thing to bring them together seamlessly and make them coherent.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I make records with an open mind, I always have.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'