Diplo Quotes

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

I started making beats when I was 13.

I've been a DJ since I was about 13, and I started out as a hip-hop DJ. So I was always playing records that would just get people going. I was just doing parties and high school dances and whatever, and then, progressively, I started making my own music, writing little songs here and there, but it was never anything crazy.

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

I kind of backed into rap music. I thought I was going to do comic books or graphic art.

I guess I did go through my phase where I wanted to be a rapper. I made music, but I was never really good at it.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

I can do every type of music, but hip-hop was my way into the game.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of the most influential things to me. It takes real genius to be able to do well. It's a very deep art form.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

I started DJing when I was, like, 11.

Once I retire, I would definitely love to be a DJ. That would be fun.

I never imagined myself being a rapper.

I was always into the West Coast rap, the production and the flows were always more appealing to me. I think my rapping days are over though.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

I had completely changed from being a mixtape DJ to being a producer and working with Nas and stuff like that.

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

So I was about 19 when I got my first SP-1200, and on that SP-1200, I made 'Bring The Pain' and a few other classic Wu joints.