Mindset Persistence | Remix The Moment - Arts That Connects | An amazing Steve Aoki Interview Hosted by Tom Bilyeu (IQ#78) @MindsetPersistence | Uploaded December 2019 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Tom's guest is Steve Aoki, a musician, DJ, 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 artists such as will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon, blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi.
This is episode #78 of Inside Quest (the last episode), first release on October 5, 2016.
Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 3:35 - Steve's father, Rocky Aoki, is the founder of the Benihana Restaurant Chain. He opened the first Benihana in 1964.
✔ 3:50 - "You had to face racism and all the madness of not fitting in. How did you find your voice in the middle of all that noise?
✔ 6:03 - Hardcore punk band Gorilla Biscuits released two albums in the late eighties before breaking up in 1992. After reuniting in 2005, the band went on a nationwide tour.
✔ 8:00 - "The sense of community and this DYI kind of philosophy, has been the thread to every major decision I've made."
✔ 14:00 - "Education and music emerging at the same time."
✔ 16:35 - "I applied to 15 different schools and I got rejected to all of them, including Harvard."
"I played at Harvard and I said: Yoh! I've got to know Harvard this way!"
✔ 18:00 - The Kills' lead singer, Alisson Mosshart, is also the frontwoman for Jack White's goth-blues band The Dead Weather.
✔ 19:00 - "How did you escape the trap of bitterness? (that your very wealthy father didn't support you financially when you were in college)"
"If you don't understand the struggle you won't be able to survive and, at the end of the day, that was my father's intention."
✔ 25:18 - The "Hall of Meat" videos are collected by "Thrasher Magazine", often referred to as "The Bible" by the skateboarding community.
✔ 26:25 - "Money doesn't change you. It amplifies you."
✔ 27:40 - "When you're willing to pay the price when you work your ass off like that, and you get it! That is..."
✔ 29:40 - Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil was selected by PBS as one of 16 "Revolutionaries Who Made America". He is also the author of 7 books, including the best-selling "The Age of Spiritual Machines".
✔ 30:50 - "If I take my foot off the gas I lose momentum. Momentum is everything."
✔ 34:30 - "I'm looking for the people that know the songs, that are crying because they feel it. I want to jump and hug that person. And I do that! Because I'm so connected to the people that really care."
✔ 38:05 - "When someone asks you If you could choose to be any superhero you answer The Green Lantern. Why?"
✔ 39:22 - "How the ability to think something and manifesting that into the real world served you?"
✔ 39:45 The Flaming Lips are known for their live shows, which have featured elaborate costumes, balloons, puppets, and more; including frontman Wayne Coyne's "Man-Size Plastic Bubble".
✔ 41:45 - The music video for "Turn Up The Volume", by Dim Mak artist Autoerotique, inspired Steve to start caking his fans.
✔ 45:38 - Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey founded SENS research foundation. Sens stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.
✔ 52:20 - "You just gotta try everything! Keep trying!" "Don't live in a bad routine."
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About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA
Tom's guest is Steve Aoki, a musician, DJ, 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 artists such as will.i.am, Afrojack, LMFAO, Linkin Park, Iggy Azalea, Lil Jon, blink-182, Laidback Luke, BTS, Monsta X, Louis Tomlinson, Rise Against, Vini Vici, Lauren Jauregui, and Fall Out Boy and is known for his remixes of artists such as Kid Cudi.
This is episode #78 of Inside Quest (the last episode), first release on October 5, 2016.
Shownotes and quotes:
✔ 3:35 - Steve's father, Rocky Aoki, is the founder of the Benihana Restaurant Chain. He opened the first Benihana in 1964.
✔ 3:50 - "You had to face racism and all the madness of not fitting in. How did you find your voice in the middle of all that noise?
✔ 6:03 - Hardcore punk band Gorilla Biscuits released two albums in the late eighties before breaking up in 1992. After reuniting in 2005, the band went on a nationwide tour.
✔ 8:00 - "The sense of community and this DYI kind of philosophy, has been the thread to every major decision I've made."
✔ 14:00 - "Education and music emerging at the same time."
✔ 16:35 - "I applied to 15 different schools and I got rejected to all of them, including Harvard."
"I played at Harvard and I said: Yoh! I've got to know Harvard this way!"
✔ 18:00 - The Kills' lead singer, Alisson Mosshart, is also the frontwoman for Jack White's goth-blues band The Dead Weather.
✔ 19:00 - "How did you escape the trap of bitterness? (that your very wealthy father didn't support you financially when you were in college)"
"If you don't understand the struggle you won't be able to survive and, at the end of the day, that was my father's intention."
✔ 25:18 - The "Hall of Meat" videos are collected by "Thrasher Magazine", often referred to as "The Bible" by the skateboarding community.
✔ 26:25 - "Money doesn't change you. It amplifies you."
✔ 27:40 - "When you're willing to pay the price when you work your ass off like that, and you get it! That is..."
✔ 29:40 - Inventor and Futurist Ray Kurzweil was selected by PBS as one of 16 "Revolutionaries Who Made America". He is also the author of 7 books, including the best-selling "The Age of Spiritual Machines".
✔ 30:50 - "If I take my foot off the gas I lose momentum. Momentum is everything."
✔ 34:30 - "I'm looking for the people that know the songs, that are crying because they feel it. I want to jump and hug that person. And I do that! Because I'm so connected to the people that really care."
✔ 38:05 - "When someone asks you If you could choose to be any superhero you answer The Green Lantern. Why?"
✔ 39:22 - "How the ability to think something and manifesting that into the real world served you?"
✔ 39:45 The Flaming Lips are known for their live shows, which have featured elaborate costumes, balloons, puppets, and more; including frontman Wayne Coyne's "Man-Size Plastic Bubble".
✔ 41:45 - The music video for "Turn Up The Volume", by Dim Mak artist Autoerotique, inspired Steve to start caking his fans.
✔ 45:38 - Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey founded SENS research foundation. Sens stands for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence.
✔ 52:20 - "You just gotta try everything! Keep trying!" "Don't live in a bad routine."
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About Tom Bilyeu 👌
Tom's new project is Impact Theory:
Web site: impacttheory.com
YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCnYMOamNKLGVlJgRUbamveA
