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Diplo

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 10, 1978

How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

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New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.

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As a youngster, I lived in Philly for 12 years, and I would go up to New York to do shows and make money - it was the dream to maybe be able to survive there and live there.

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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

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Attention. That's all girls want.

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The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

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Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

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I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.

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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.

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If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

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You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

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The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.

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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

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Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.

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I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.

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