Quotes for All
The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That’s when I learned that I couldn’t work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn’t spoken to at home. Frankie Knuckles
I have worked with a lot of different great people. One of the things my partner, my manager Judy Weinstein, instilled in [David] Morales and myself is that the quality goes in before the name goes home. Frankie Knuckles
The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what … Read more
A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn’t think I could do it but he said, \”You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you.\” Frankie Knuckles
I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one. Frankie Knuckles
I’m of the mind that your private life is private and you don’t need to put everything out there about yourself – but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music. Frankie Knuckles
I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn’t want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It’s just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I’m 56 years old now. Frankie Knuckles
There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that’s Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Frankie Knuckles
Well technology has changed a lot of things, making it possible for just about anyone to make music. But not everybody is a songwriter, so that puts me in a completely different ballpark than the other DJs out here that are writing and producing tracks. I don’t stop at tracks, I try to complete the … Read more
I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job. Frankie Knuckles