“I think the rise of electronic music as a main stage concept has been ...” — Hardwell Quote

I think the rise of electronic music as a main stage concept has been a long time coming.

In the end when we're on stage, we push buttons, but when we're in the studio we're actually creating music that we play in gigs.

If I doubt whether a track works, I'm just going to play the instrumental version in my set and judge where the crowd takes it.

I like to keep myself busy.

To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.

I never like something too live or too electronic. I'll take a bit of both.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

I want to make music that is completely electronic but doesn't feel it.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.