Frankie Knuckles Professions : DJ Born : January 18, 1955 Died : March 31, 2014 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Frankie Knuckles The minute you think you're greater than the music, you're finished Frankie Knuckles minutes greater thinking House Music isn't black or white. Frankie Knuckles feel-good white house I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything. Frankie Knuckles cost dancing thinking I'm always looking for just the right song that has something to say. Frankie Knuckles song There is always a point in the party where I wouldn't say I have people in the palm of my hands, but when there is a point in the evening... if you have been to any great party, you know when the whole room becomes one. Frankie Knuckles party hands people When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing. Frankie Knuckles thrilling Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight. Frankie Knuckles who-you-know timing superstar I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men. Frankie Knuckles hearing ears men I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards. Frankie Knuckles doing-the-right-thing right-place rewards The music is everything to me. Frankie Knuckles music-is I'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones. Frankie Knuckles guy crazy thinking There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Frankie Knuckles artist two people I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job. Frankie Knuckles cost gentleman jobs I think women's ears are a lot more sensitive. Men are going to follow whatever appeals to women. Frankie Knuckles sensitive-man men thinking The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically. Frankie Knuckles quality house giving Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don't stop at tracks, I try to complete the whole package with the song. So working at that level has put me in a completely different place. Frankie Knuckles technology writing song I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now. Frankie Knuckles wake-up one-day years I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home. Frankie Knuckles names home people I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music. Frankie Knuckles mind men needs I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one. Frankie Knuckles i-believe believe enemy Similar Authors Axwell dj Avicii dj Ali Shaheed Muhammad dj Afrika Bambaataa dj Adam Beyer dj Donnie Simpson dj All Authors
