Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

I certainly considered DJing. I bought four vinyls, and I bought some turntables, and I was like, 'Um. Yeah. I'm not gonna do this. This is not my thing.'

I just wanna be a DJ!

I begged and begged, and my uncle gave me his old turntables. It was one hi-fi and one old Stereo Lab turntable and a rusty mixer. I was really chuffed. I kept that for five years - that's where I learned to mix.

I had also done a little disc jockeying.

I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

I love deejaying, of course; that's where my heart and my passion is.

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.

I've been DJing since I was in high school.

I've learned not turning things up to full volume is a good idea. Also, because I have the freedom, sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

I'm doing bass trap; I'm doing EDM songs.

I'm always getting sent new stuff, so I have to incorporate digital equipment into my sets, but I try to play vinyl as much as possible. It's just the best-sounding format still. And I've been using vinyl since I started deejaying, for over 15 years, so it also just feels the most natural for me.