I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands. Avicii More Quotes by Avicii More Quotes From Avicii I can't tell where the journey will end Avicii ends journey knows Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize. Avicii best-love games love-is Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost. Avicii and-love games love-is It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies. Avicii inspired feelings people There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different. Avicii different sound complaining I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can. Avicii character people thinking Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres. Avicii viruses genre different There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: "Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that." When I'm off I just don't want to hear anything. Avicii track trying I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that. Avicii cheat cds fans When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken. Avicii taken names I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before. I try to make music that I like and I trust my own judgement with what will work with a wider audience. If you compare yourself to the charts, you lose perspective on what you're doing and why you're doing it. Avicii perspective judgement trying I'm a DJ. I get the party started. Avicii djs party I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans. Avicii fans use helping I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome. Avicii fascination able play I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative. Avicii mainstream people negative People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you. Avicii sweden conscious people I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. Avicii writing-music hard-times writing I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments. Avicii piano growing-up play If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way. Avicii song people needs A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do. Avicii pride night thinking
