David Guetta quotes

David Guetta is a French DJ, record producer, and songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern electronic dance music. His collaborations with world-famous artists have produced numerous international hits and shaped the sound of contemporary pop and dance music. He continues to influence the global music scene with chart-topping tracks and energetic live performances. Here are 28 of his quotes:

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

David Guetta

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

David Guetta

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

David Guetta

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

David Guetta

I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

David Guetta

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

David Guetta

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

David Guetta

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

David Guetta

I wanna be a nice guy.

David Guetta

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

David Guetta

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

David Guetta

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

David Guetta

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

David Guetta

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

David Guetta

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

David Guetta

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

David Guetta

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

David Guetta

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

David Guetta

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

David Guetta

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

David Guetta

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

David Guetta

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

David Guetta