Deadmau5 Quotes

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

EDM is here to stay. If you're 19 years old, this is your rock 'n' roll.

I think it's ridiculous to try to sell records to teenagers, because teenagers don't buy my records. And there ain't that many teenagers out there in the marketplace.

People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

You can't argue that hip-hop rots away the moral character of kids or rots their brain and still see middle-class white kids going to college who are listening to hip-hop. Going on to become healthy adults listening to hip-hop.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

Compared to EDM, I feel like there are a lot of girls at my shows.

Our audience isn't One Direction, Katy Perry, Rihanna fans.

You have to know who you're making music for.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil Brides isn't always the most popular thing in the world.

When I was a bit younger, I loved Rufus Wainwright - just the fact that he existed.

For me, One Direction is the only fandom I've been in, and I made so many friends.

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!

Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

Rag 'N' Bone Man is for everybody, like Wu Tang is for the children.

I used to love the Wu-Tang Clan. They took my school by storm, by which I mean the three kids in my year who listened to hip-hop. I skipped lectures to go and buy their second album, 'Forever', and then rushed home to listen to it.

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.

Bands like Little Mix do represent youth culture because loads of 16 year old girls listen to them.

When we play live show we tend to find there's a whole portion that's a considerably younger demographic. That's quite gratifying. They primarily seem to be into 'The Hurting' which I guess makes sense.