Back in 2013, I was in a really bad place.  I had been in a relationship for some time prior to my spark of production, but in June, that relationship ended, and not on good terms.  I was broken and I needed something to get my mind off to the breakup.  I already had a love for electronic music, that started back in 2009, so I had the thought one day "how do these musicians do this? Make electronic music?" Then I did some research found FL Studio and Ableton, Cubase, the whole nine.  But after I began to produce, I fell into the hole of letting it drown out my life, I let production consume me and I suffered in school and socially.  Slowly, I realized the problem I had with my obsession.  I let myself out, out of the hole I made for myself. I learned to balance my everyday life and my production life, as a way to escape from everyday life.

In summary, my inspiration was a time of depression for me.  I needed an escape from a bad time in life, and now I use production as a way to allow myself to connect with others, communicate emotion in ways beyond language.

I was in middle school when I first listened to electronica, a friend of mine sent me some songs and I got hooked. I eventually got around to listening to stuff like Kaskade, Steve Aoki, Wolfgang Gartner, etc.. and thought it would be cool if I could be the one in the DJ booth playing my tunes. So I searched around the net, and started to teach myself how to produce.

Like others, Daft Punk was my earliest/biggest inspiration.
I discovered them shortly before high school and fell in love with their sound instantly. Daft Punk was the first electronic group that I actually recognized, and their sound drew me in. I wanted more, and after listening to Alive 2007 and getting goosebumps, I wanted to figure out how they made their music. At the time I let the magic of producing remain a mystery and enjoyed the sound, but after a few years (and heavy use of Pandora radio haha) I started discovering other artists like The Chemical Brothers, Justice, and Deadmau5 - he was another one of my biggest inspirations in the beginning after hearing Ghosts N' Stuff, and he lead me to find Skrillex and Zedd in their early stages which was another source of inspiration. 
The Glitch Mob was also a big inspiration in the beginning. I saw them live in 2011 - that was my first electronic show and it changed my life... to the point where I got two Glitch Mob tattoos haha. No regrets.

In 2011, was obsessed with youtube, and the community that surrounded it. I was watching Epic Meal Time, and they had an episode with a man in a fully chromed out Mouse helmet. I heard "Cthulhu sleeps" and I was Instantly hooked. Over the next year I became the weird kid who listened to "Techno" music. Inevitably, I started looking into electronic music production soon after. Deadmau5 gave me a new outlook on music and I am forever grateful.

No that I think about it, my brother. My brother used to play around with 'coolmixpro' (i cant remember exactly what it was called) in the late 90s and I would sit and watch. I got my own computer when I was 11 and started making general midi versions of Daft Punk tracks and stuff, eventually trying to do my own compositions. It was Daft Punk ultimately who inspired me to start making electronic music though

It is funny how many producers say they started making music because of Daft Punk. This is my case also, but I'm starting to feel that's becoming a little bit of a cliché. Lol, the same way a lot of  guitarists say Jimi Hendrix is a huge inspiration.

played counter-strike competitively and used to watch frag movies that had live sets in them, first one i remember finding was a Paul van Dyk set from the early 2000s. also tracks like Svenson & Gielen - Twisted crazy to think about, but i wouldn't have ever found electronic music if it weren't for that, and that's essentially why i started - just fell in love with trance from those videos and eventually wanted to create my own sets. at that point, i felt i had a little more to offer than just playing other peoples music

Deadmau5 to start producing at all, RAC to start making more instrumental stuff.

For music in general and guitar: Korn when i was 14,for classical and piano Beethoven at 16,electronic Aphex Twin at 19,Dance:Mat Zo,Arty,Pryda,Deadmau5 at 22-23.