Quotes by Diplo

About Diplo:

Thomas Wesley Pentz is an American DJ, music producer, rapper and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. He founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. Among other jobs, he has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia. He is also the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project, Major Lazer. His 2013 EP Revolution debuted at number 68 on the US Billboard 200.
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Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.

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I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

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The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

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All of the best songs happen on a whim.

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I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.

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I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, ...

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People don't know exactly what I do; they just know I'm 'cool.'

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I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it's kinda cool.

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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

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Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

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Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm just a fan and have been one since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had, even though I'm sure I'm probably older tha...

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If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.

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It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.

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Klaus from the Teddybears, Bloodshy and Avant and Mike Snow, they've done lots of Britney Spears production. They went backwards from production to being in a band, which might be cool. I might do that, too, one day.

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When I worked with M.I.A., who was, like, the coolest person back then, she was just a girl I met on the Internet. Or even when I met Azealia Banks on Myspace, I never thought, 'Oh, she's cool.' I just loved what she was doing. So I've always been li...

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When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.

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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every...

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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

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Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

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Author Bio

  • NameDiplo
  • DescriptionAmerican DJ, music producer, rapper, and songwriter
  • AliasesThomas Wesley Pentz; Thomas Pentz
  • BornNovember 10, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDisc Jockey; Record Producer; Songwriter