Dubstep Quotes

• Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

  Kode9

  Foundation, Depth, Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

  Skrillex

  Song, Dancing, Worry

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

  Dhani Harrison

  Lying, Inspired, Found

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Records, Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

  Kode9

  Echoes, Space, Track

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

  Katy B

  Song, Years, Hearing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

  Kieran Hebden

  Inspiration, Young Generation, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

  Katy B

  Thinking, Sound, Chosen

  "Katy B: One step beyond". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2011.

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• There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

  Kode9

  Believe, Hype, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I saw someone label me as a dubstep producer but I'm definitely not a dubstep producer. There's nothing wrong with that, though, because that's major. But it's like a school bus driver being labeled as a NASCAR driver. I would love to be a NASCAR driver, but I drive buses for a living.

  AraabMuzik

  School, Labels, Saws

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Wii, Nintendo

  "The Mark of Athena". Book by Rick Riordan, October 2, 2012.

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• I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

  Kode9

  Issues, Culture, Influence

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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