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Zedd

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 2, 1989

A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.

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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

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I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

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If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.

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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

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Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

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I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.

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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!

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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

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