But the DJ does not create any music. A DJ plays someone else's music. DJ stops and starts someone else's music. DJ fades in and fades out someone else's music.
I think we can all agree that a DJ is NOT a musician. But...he IS an artist and you've got to respect that. Most of us, including myself, could not put those samples, and loops, and snippets together to make a piece an hour long that flows from one sound (and sound idea) to another. It's no different than what a producer does to produce a hit song or what a movie producer does. Puts it all together.