Techno Quotes - Page 2

• In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

  Moby

  House, Hip Hop, Way

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.

  Luke Haines

  Rocks, Ideas, Band

  9 Copy quote

• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

  12 Copy quote

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

  Brian Eno

  Europe, House, Hip Hop

  "Q and A With Brian Eno". Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could be called jazz. It could be called hip-hop. It could be called blues, or rock, or beat. It could be called techno. It's just a new idea. For me, it was punk rock. That was my entrance to this idea of the new ideas being able to be presented in an environment that wasn't being dictated by a profit motive.

  Ian MacKaye

  Rocks, Ideas, Space

  30 Copy quote

• 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.

  Pedro Winter

  Doors, Cities, Firsts

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

  Sloane Crosley

  Want, Berlin

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts to the Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Emotion, Kind, Hops

  "Madonna, Only More So". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 1, 1998.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Age, Enlightenment, Atlantis

  57 Copy quote

• Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.

  Stephen Dewaele

  Dad, People, Labels

  6 Copy quote

• The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.

  Adam Beyer

  Strong, Needs, Awakening

  Source: www.spin.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
  loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
  the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
  techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

  Alvin Toffler

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

  9 Copy quote

• Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Believe, Technology, Needs

  10 Copy quote

• I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Taste, Wells

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.

  Lara Stone

  Song, Memories, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was much more of a naïve techno-optimist than I am now. I still believe that technology can help us come out of this situation with a richer humanity with less impact on the planet, but now I think it has to be paired with effective policy in order to achieve that.

  Ramez Naam

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Guy, Stuff, Poppies

  "Jersey Devil". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

  Naomi Klein

  Track, Triumph, Economic Globalization

  6 Copy quote

• There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

  Stewart Baker

  Thinking, Culture, Libertarian

  "Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Running, Clueless, Car

  Source: www.terrain.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software! In short, the political intelligence of war and the political intelligence of society no longer penetrate the techno-scientific world.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Fate, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Eric Ripert

  New York, Sound, Clubs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

  Jamais Cascio

  Would Be, Global Warming, Geoengineering

  7 Copy quote

• Girls in New York look like giraffes.
  Long neck, long legs, tiny tits and ass.
  Girls from L.A rock over sized shades.
  And chill all day cause they already paid.
  Girls in Miami...string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto.
  Girls from Detroit like electro
  And dance all night till they break they neck yo.

  Shwayze

  Girl, New York, Night

  5 Copy quote

• I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.

  Mark Indelicato

  Artist, People, Example

  Source: www.justjared.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source