Dance Music Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Dubstep

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Music Is

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

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Song, Feelings, Groove

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• Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

  Al Walser

  Crazy, People, Germany

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• It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

  Jonathan Davis

  Inspirational, Dance, Becoming One

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• Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Want, Bops, Jazz

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• As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.

  Ne-Yo

  Song, Home, Roots

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• Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.

  Paul Zollo

  Music, Country, Boys

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• The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

  Ezra Pound

  Music, New Year, Taken

  ABC of Reading (1934) "Warning"

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• Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

  Sergio Pizzorno

  Music, Arses

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• My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beach, Listening, Done

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.11, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Dance, Real

  "Tori Amos " by Michael Tedder, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

  will.i.am

  Different, Way, Music Is

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

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• Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

  Jessie Ware

  Way, Mainstream

  "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

  Moby

  Scotland, Special, Scottish

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• What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

  Steve Coogan

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  "Questions for Steve Coogan". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 3, 2011.

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• I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

  Kylie Minogue

  Camps, I Can

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• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "Talib Kweli On ReGENERATION Activism Documentary And Being ABBAACCSS1‘Conscious’ Rapper". Interview with Seamus McKiernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2012.

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• I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

  David Guetta

  Inspirational, Dance, People

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

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• DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

  Alexa Chung

  Song, Fun, Phones

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• Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

  Tom DeLonge

  Music Is, Who You Are

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• Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

  Artie Shaw

  Baby, Giving, Tunes

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• Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

  Jack Davenport

  Gay, Nightclubs, Offers

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