Electronic music Quotes · Page 3

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

— Bill Laswell

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that…

— Avicii

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

— Lykke Li

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

— John Frusciante

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

— Kelela

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

— Nigel Godrich

The electronic music world is such a tight-knit community. We're all hanging out at different festivals and such.

— Hardwell

I think for a classical musician the goal is the same as an electronic musician. A very good professional classical musician must…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or,…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I see electronic music as loads of monkeys pushing buttons and me being one of them. But I think my album 'Timeless'…

— Goldie

I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So…

— Casey Spooner

“This is me trying to bridge the gap and make a record that I’m truly proud of, I’ve got my 80s side…

— Blake Lewis

In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's…

— Pauline Oliveros

It was two extremes of influence being put next to each other: the most electronic music we have on the record and…

— Ryan Ross

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So…

— Pauline Oliveros

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I…

— Gary Numan

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at…

— Fatboy Slim

The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally…

— Thomas Bangalter

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically…

— Frederick Lenz

My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It…

— Girl Talk

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has…

— Kaskade

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

— Mura Masa

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— Thomas Bangalter

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

— John Grant

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

— Marques Brownlee

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

— Max Joseph

I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.

— Mura Masa

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

— Bakermat

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has…

— Kaskade

We're huge fans of Kylie Minogue, Grimes, and artists who are doing more electronic music.

— Jessica Origliasso

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

— Tiesto

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

— Squarepusher

I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

— Kaskade

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I love music - anything that catches my ears - but it's more about lots of rock 'n' roll and really funky…

— Prateik Babbar