Chicago Quote by Deadmau5

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

— Winston Marshall

EDM is, like... Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10,…

— Deadmau5

I grew up with dance music and all of the sudden people started calling it EDM.

— Hardwell

I saw the EDM world and wanted to be in that more than the hip-hop world.

— Riff Raff

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where…

— will.i.am

There was a movement called 'disco sucks', it was a shame to like disco, but then there was no music to dance to, so…

— David Guetta

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

— Eric Ripert

I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy…

— Oliver Sykes

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of…

— Fab Five Freddy

There was a moment in the late '90s with Prodigy, Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers, where it looked like electronic music was going…

— Calvin Harris

I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

— Yuna

If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got…

— Goldie