Dance Music Quotes - Page 5

• The way Electronic Dance Music [EDM] is manipulated and exported to the world is a very strong, and "total" concept. But it's not that interesting artistically. EDM is seen by some media as a kickstarter for kids who have no idea how deep dance music can go.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Strong, Kids, Media

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Dog, Dutch, Superstar

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Dutch, Economy, These Days

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Thinking, Kind, Beats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

  John Darnielle

  Two, Records, Able

  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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• I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Movie, Art, Hip Hop

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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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• [David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

  David Bowie

  Jazz, Selling, Bowie

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wings, Bucks, March

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

  Moby

  Song, Air, Hands

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• I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.

  Steve Blake

  Christian, Rap, Next Day

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