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

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I can't tell where the journey will end by Avicii

I can't tell where the journey will end

ends journey knows

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize. by Avicii

Life's a game made for everyone, and love is the prize.

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.

and-love games love-is

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two han... by Avicii

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

two hands world

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly... by Avicii

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

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.

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.

character people thinking

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different ge... by Avicii

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.

viruses genre different

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that.

cheat cds fans

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that... by Avicii

When I started out, I was Avici with one i. But on MySpace, that name was taken.

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.

perspective judgement trying

I'm a DJ. I get the party started. by Avicii

I'm a DJ. I get the party started.

djs party

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me... by Avicii

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

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.

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.

mainstream people negative

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying abo... by Avicii

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

sweden conscious people

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. by Avicii

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

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.

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.

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.

pride night thinking