Dance Music Quotes - Page 2

• To come out here and play on Woodstock grounds, first year ever headlining on the main stage there's nothing more iconic. [Mysteryland] is one of those festivals that holds down the legacy of dance music it's been around for so many years. It's been part of what we do for so long. It kinda makes sense to bring the tradition over here to America. The festival grounds of Woodstock, that's pretty epic.

  Steve Aoki

  Epic, Years, Play

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• Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

  Afrojack

  Country, Nashville, Holland

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• When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Rocks, Dancing, People

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• Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

  Kaskade

  World Love, People, Around The World

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• Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

  Steve Aoki

  Art, Passion, Love Is

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• I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot.

  Hilary Duff

  Sweet, Song, Catchy

  "Hilary Duff Interview BLOODWORTH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.

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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

  Kaskade

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Hymns

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• I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

  Goldie

  Edm, House, Chicago

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• Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

  Fatboy Slim

  Dance, Rap, Thinking

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• Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

  A-Trak

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.

  Misty Copeland

  Art, Children, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  Kaskade

  Stars, Becoming, Producers

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• Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

  Susan Sontag

  Movie, Art, Ideas

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• I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Thinking, Literature, World

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• I honestly produce for myself, not for other people and everyone who supports me I'm really, really, really am thankful for the fact they are supporting me. However, in dance music, you need to switch it up sometimes.

  Nicky Romero

  People, Support, Needs

  Source: www.thissongslaps.com

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• I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.

  Andy Bell

  Clubs, Hearing, Dance Love

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• Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.

  Shane MacGowan

  Song, Sex, Mean

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.

  Steve Aoki

  Thinking, Cake, Play

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• If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Moving, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I change my mind about things - for a while I was punk rocker, and if you weren't a punk rocker you were an apostate. Then I was a dance music enthusiast, and if you weren't a dance music enthusiast, you were an apostate. I was carnivore, and if you were a vegan, I didn't want to talk to you. Then I was vegan, and if you were a carnivore I didn't want to talk to you.

  Moby

  Mind, Want, Vegan

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without a band, and I wasn't interested in collaborating with anyone.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Band, Type, Convenience

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

  DJ Shadow

  Ibiza, Style, Trendy

  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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• There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.

  Thom Yorke

  Views, Stuff, Digital

  Interview with Daniel Craig, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 28, 2013.

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