Armin van Buuren

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound. Armin van Buuren

Always Heart Sound

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism. Armin van Buuren

Artist Choice critisim

Once a week i have to do my radio show, 'A State of Trance', usually on Wednesday night. I try to go running at least three times a week and spend at least a day without turning my laptop on and spend it with my wife and daughter. Armin van Buuren

Day Night

I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison. Armin van Buuren

Comparison Emotions Music

You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path. Armin van Buuren

Know Path People

I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved. Armin van Buuren

Dance love Music

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made. Armin van Buuren

Big Culture Dance

In '92 - '93, I was at that age when I was looking for my identity and that's when I found dance music and I really fell in love with it. Armin van Buuren

Age Identity love

I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone. Armin van Buuren

Always Law Music