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J Dilla is the top producer of all time, in my book, alongside Timbaland and Pharrell. Then DJ Mustard.

Time Book DJ Top Producer Mustard

I was lucky enough to grow up in an era when radio was less formatted. It was really special. You could hear a jazz song then a pop song then a show tune then some jazz. Basically, whatever the DJ felt like playing, he would play. He was educating you and exposing you to things you would never hear otherwise.

Song Grow Enough DJ You Play

My uncle, he's a big DJ out here in L.A. His name is DJ Tee; he's got a bar in Westchester.

Name DJ Uncle Bar Out Big

I just wanna be a DJ!

Kirby Bliss Blanton

When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room.

World Think DJ Place Want Kind

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

DJ Test First Visualize Everything

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

Mom DJ Matter Always Radio Being

I had a band when I was 14, and we would play around in my hometown of Middlesbrough, and we'd go to the club afterwards, which was the Purple Onion then. There would be live bands playing, and in between that, the DJ would be playing records.

Live Hometown DJ Play Go Purple

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Baseball Growing Up Believe DJ Radio

I think 2014 for me is going to give me the possibility to do even bigger things than anyone has done. I want to change the party scene - like, stop just being a DJ with lights, a big LED screen, and oh-look-at-me speakers. There's way more to a party, and I think everyone knows it. I want to make it special.

Change Me Think DJ Party Lights

My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

Shadow People DJ Hip-Hop More First

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

Work DJ Play Listen Always Next

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

DJ You Kind Hip-Hop More Point

DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.

God Walking DJ Down Guy Like

I ran 'Top of the Pops' from the perspective of a DJ. So I would identify the best dancer and the best-dressed audience member and make them part of the show. They were as important as any of the bands.

Best Perspective DJ Important Top

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the hip-hop style; it's strictly the band that makes that music, which is a lot harder to do.

Music Style Aesthetic DJ Hip-Hop

I grew up looking up to DJ Premier, who would have the illest hip-hop joint on everybody's album.

Statik Selektah

Looking DJ Hip-Hop Up Would Who

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

College DJ My Own Years Punk Own

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Me Song Thought DJ Long Goodness

Wreckin' Cru was a DJ crew. They used to call it that because it was the guys that came in after the party was over and broke down the equipment. We eventually made a record, and we had the costumes on and what have you. Back then, everybody had their little getups, you know, like SoulSonic Force, UTFO.

DJ You Back Down Party Know

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.

Love Passion Quality Opinion DJ You

Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house, and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.

Girl Day Me Mom DJ House

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.

Soul People Mind Me End DJ

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

Great Fashion DJ Career Will After

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