Quotes About Music

I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I do love dance music, but at the same time, I'm not looking to put out a big pop album. You've got to be the best you can be.

In the U.K. especially, dance music goes in cycles. It's often kids reappropriating sounds they loved when they were younger, but were too young to be a part of.

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.

I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.

With Moloko, we tried to be the opposite of what was out there at the time. I like to be different. In the mid-Nineties, music was quite dour and serious, and everything was dressed down. So we went the other way. Our first record was about not wanting to do four-to-the-floor dance music.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

I create vibe-y dance music.

I like hip-hop, I like a lot of dance music. If it's got drums in it.

What's wrong with the 'Laffy Taffys' and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have club music. We gotta have kids' music.

Dance music has become global and it's here to stay.

Well, I never danced with the 'Pips' - they didn't let me dance!

When I was young, I remember the first song I danced to was 'Akhiyan Milaon,' because I am a big fan of Madhuri Dixit.

No boys liked Take That, and it was weird if you did because they danced around and wore matching clothes. But I didn't grow up with a dad who told me something was manly or not manly.

I always wanted to make a pop record. I'm a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.

I was more of a dancer back then, I did choreography, but I was nothing like 'Powerline'.

I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.

I'm not a big dancer!

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.