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 KnucklesI'm a lot more sensitive about music, I think, than most other guys in this particular side of the business. Most of them are beat crazy and beat heavy. I'm more melody. I'm more musical than most of the other ones.
Frankie KnucklesA 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."
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