Dance music Quotes · Page 2

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

— Mika

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

— Tori Amos

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

— Seth Troxler

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Steve Coogan

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

— Afrojack

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

— Gregory Orr

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”

— Agnes De Mille

“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included…

— Nicholas Wade

The fun image is what we project onstage, because our music is dance music. But it's not what the group is about…

— Gina Schock

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move,…

— Saul Williams

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like…

— Sia

Part of why I was drawn to making dance music was convenience. It was the type of music I could make without…

— Nicolas Jaar

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat…

— Artie Shaw

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to…

— Moby

I'm definitely a fan of dance music. I guess we really call it 'dance' music because music seems to have become very…

— Joe Satriani

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music,…

— Nomi Ruiz

The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown…

— Washed Out

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I…

— Alexa Chung

“What Is It like to Be a Gay Dad? Well, the first thing we do in the morning is wake our kids…

— Eric Rosswood

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the…

— Ezra Pound

We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the…

— Wendell Berry

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

— Beth Orton

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

— Alexander Pope

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought.

— Kaskade

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

— Carl Sandburg

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.

— Alannah Myles

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

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Kiwanuka

I dance colors. Music shows me colors. I frequently say, 'I dance music; the music does not dance me.'

— Ariana DeBose

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.

— TyDi

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

— Nelly Mazloum

I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

— Stromae

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

— Jane Austen

“Dance before the music is over. Live before your Life is over.-RVM”

— RVM

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

— Carmen Electra

What's wrong with the 'Laffy Taffys' and the Soulja Boys? We need fun records. We gotta have dance music. We gotta have…

— Pimp C