Electronic Music Quotes - Page 2

• It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

  Lukas Foss

  Missing, Elements, Immersion

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• I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

  Fred Durst

  Bass, Drum And Bass

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

  Richie Hawtin

  Past, Keys, Years

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• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Years, Radio, New Work

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• It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door.

  Kaskade

  Block, Kids, Thinking

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• I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

  Zedd

  Moments, That Moment, Feels

  "Zedd & Tommie Sunshine Chat About ‘Clarity,’ Coming Up In DJ’ing & Fans (EXCLUSIVE)". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.

  Trevor Horn

  Dad, Rocks, People

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Roots, Mixtures

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• At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

  Tiesto

  America, Ends, Phenomenon

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

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• I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

  Marques Brownlee

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• It’s very strange how electronic music formatted
  itself and forgot that its roots are about the
  surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race,
  gender, and style of music into this big party.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Party, Acceptance, Race

  "Machines for Life". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com.

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• The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Fun, Party, Today

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

  Hans Zimmer

  Film Music, Movement, Way

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• I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Remember, Curious, Explaining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Mirrors, Mind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

  Pedro Winter

  Serious, Feds, Fed Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always enjoyed dancing and going clubbing. I've always been interested in electronic music. I would love more than anything to see my music mutate into something that would be played in clubs. For sure.

  KT Tunstall

  Dancing

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• With most electronic music I hear now, the things I like will be the things that have soul. It has to have a feeling in it, where it feels warm, or feels epic. I like to play with that in my music as well, there will always be a piano chord or something underneath it to make you feel at home. I always try and make sure even with vocals and layering that you still feel like you know me, no matter whether you're into grime or hip hop.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Epic, Hip Hop

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore it. That'd be ridiculous to spend 10 years on something and not use that as an influence.

  Jez Williams

  Ridiculous, Kind, Influence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "Readers recommend: songs about games" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2015.

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• It's good to listen to electronic music when you're stressed out because you will feel a release afterwards.

  Seungri

  Stressed, Release, Feels

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I think what's made electronic music so fascinating is that it came up through the underground and always moved and pivoted so quickly that you could never keep a handle on it. That continues to happen. Sure, the stuff on the very top moves slower and is marketed for Spotify. But there are still going to be undercurrents that flow freely and move around, simply because there's too much of a base with this music.

  Kaskade

  Moving, Thinking, Moved

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I think a lot of electronic musicians are drawn to starting with texture because the whole reason we're working with electronics is to try to create new sounds or sounds that cannot be created acoustically. When you're doing that, it's nice to be able to just create a different palette for every single song. I feel like a lot of electronic music sounds like...Each album sounds like a compilation more than it does a band.

  Dan Deacon

  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

  Kaskade

  People, Flavor, Week

  "Kaskade Talks Corporate Influence on Dance Music: Some 'Don't Care if They're Slinging Fried Chicken or EDM' (Q&A)". Interview with Eddie Kim, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 10, 2013.

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