Electronic Music Quotes

• I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

  Bjork

  Music, People, Soul

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• When I started, DJs weren't in the media, electronic music wasn't in the sales charts and a DJ was the freak in the corner who provided the music while other people had fun. So to do it, you must have been a freak and a music lover.

  Paul van Dyk

  Fun, Media, People

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• Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

  Armin van Buuren

  Music, Style, Trance

  Twitter post from Apr 27, 2011

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• Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

  Bill Laswell

  Opposites, Computer, Humans

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• Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic.

  Justin Broadrick

  Real, Doe, Boundaries

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

  Richie Hawtin

  Art, Technology, Tools

  FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Oct 29, 2012

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• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• I love music more than I love people.

  Jeff Mills

  Love, Music, People

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• Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.

  Nigel Godrich

  Fashion, Bleeding, Mainstream

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Generations, Accepted, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

  Vijay Iyer

  Imagination, Helping, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

  Pedro Winter

  Party, Dancing, Scene

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music.

  Paul van Dyk

  Crazy, People, Culture

  "The Evolution of EDM Pioneer Paul van Dyk". Interview with Samantha Oltman, www.motherjones.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

  Luc Ferrari

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.

  Glenn Branca

  Real, Creating, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

  Kaskade

  Life, Music, Kids

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• I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Ideas, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world.

  Bjork

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.stereogum.com. June 29, 2011.

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• A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

  Fatboy Slim

  Smile, Communication, Crowds

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• I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

  Squarepusher

  Thinking, Aggressive, Pure

  "Squarepusher Announces New Album" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 28, 2012.

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• When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

  Avicii

  House, Listening, Eric

  "Q&A: Avicii". Interview with Andy Malt, www.completemusicupdate.com. July 16, 2013.

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• I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them

  Paul van Dyk

  Leadership, Music, Creating

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• Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

  Seth Troxler

  Art, Real, Edm

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• Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Civilization, Engineering

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• 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.

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