Dance Music Quotes - Page 4

• I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Song, Feelings, Groove

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• I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Majority

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• Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

  Stan Kenton

  Play, People, Worry

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.

  Afrojack

  Party, Passion, Thinking

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• London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

  Jeff Beck

  Ducks, Want, London

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• I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

  Afrojack

  Song, Thinking, People

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• What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

  Gwenno

  Song, Moving, Solo

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

  Eugene Mirman

  Music, Party, Cab Drivers

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• New wave disco was coming to the fore then, and we were at a different point entirely. I like to listen to dance music, but I don't think I'm primarily a dance music writer.

  Stan Ridgway

  Thinking, Different, Wave

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• The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.

  Frankie Knuckles

  Giving, House, Quality

  Interview with Ron Slomowicz, notabledance.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

  TyDi

  Europe, America, Australia

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

  Bill Laswell

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful depending on what people are going through in their lives at any given moment.

  Darren Fletcher

  Meaningful, Fun, People

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It's very strange what happens when I start working for a film. In my life I've done a lot of stuff - I did a lot of dance music, a lot of TV shows and lots of different types of films - and every time it is a new experience.

  Claudio Simonetti

  New Experiences, Tv Shows, Done

  Source: thequietus.com

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