Creativity Quote by Eric San

Eric San frames experimentation not as a detour from mastery but as the whole point of touching the gear. “Playing with decks” lands deliberately casual: it’s not “performing” or “composing,” it’s play - a word that smuggles in permission to fail, to be curious, to treat technology as an instrument you learn by misusing. For a musician whose work is tied to turntables, samplers, and live manipulation, that matters. Decks are often fetishized as either sacred legacy hardware or precision tools; San quietly refuses both stories and treats them like a lab bench.

The repetition does the work. “Trying new things... keep trying different things... keep pushing it” reads like a self-imposed training plan, less romantic inspiration than habit. The subtext is discipline disguised as openness: creativity isn’t a lightning bolt, it’s an ethic of iteration. “A little bit at a time” is the tell - he’s describing progress as incremental strain, the way you build a set, a sound, a career without snapping under the pressure to constantly reinvent yourself overnight.

Culturally, it’s a rebuttal to two common traps in electronic music: nostalgia (endlessly perfecting a signature routine) and novelty-chasing (upgrading for the sake of upgrading). San’s intent threads the needle: newness isn’t a marketing posture, it’s a practice. The decks become less a symbol of DJ authority and more a reminder that the most modern stance is staying movable.