Quotes About Techno

Techno was invented in Berlin

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

Every morning I hear the alarm, it's like "BEEP BEEP BEEP" For second I'm like, "I could get used to that, just dream I'm in a techno club, or something."

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

Techno music is the foundational influence upon the modern tunes that saturate the cultural airwaves with unabashed monotony giving today's tunes all of the lyrical sophistication of a kindergarten merry-go-round rhyme combined with the musical nuances of an electric can opener.

It's about reaching as many souls as I can through techno, speaking God's truth and his gospel to as many ears as I can, taking the message to the street.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

When you're growing up you also like to go out and party a lot, and the music that we would hear going out would be techno and electronica. And earlier stuff like the Prodigy. It kind of stood out from everything else. Y'know, 'Firestarter,' where did that come out of? It sounded alien and otherworldly.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

My audiences are generally mixed. Some people like techno, others are into the pop music, and others enjoy my film music.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

My mother's records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn't hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n' roll - so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.

There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.