Quotes by Steve Aoki

About Steve Aoki:

Steven Hiroyuki "Steve" Aoki is an American electro house musician, record producer, and music executive. In 2012 Pollstar designated Aoki as the highest grossing dance artist in North America from tours. He has collaborated with producers and vocalists such as will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon, and Laidback Luke, and is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi.
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When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire...

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Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

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I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.

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Self-discovery is so important in identity processing: who you hang out with, what clothes you wear, what shows you see. As a kid, I found out about things through friends. I would go to hardcore shows with 50 people.

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I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.

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I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell...

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When I'm at a show, I'm there to have fun. Let's just not care for a moment. So this cake in your face is to make you lose your mind. And it's not about caring about whatever you are wearing and caring what other people are thinking about you. Out of...

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The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived.

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At my shows, I want to be totally sharp and focused on every single song, on every single thing that I do, and plus, I have to because I'm, like, caking someone and have to run back and mix the next song... and I have so much fast, quick reflex timin...

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The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself... should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target...

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My favorite country to visit is Japan.

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Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break do...

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A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

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Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an undergrou...

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I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

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I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

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My favorite food is Ramen.

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The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

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My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

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Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

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Author Bio

  • NameSteve Aoki
  • DescriptionAmerican DJ and record producer
  • BornNovember 30, 1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionClub DJ; Disc Jockey