Crowds Quote by Richie Hawtin

Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

— Ted Alexandro

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

When I'm doing a set as an artist I'm right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ…

— Lil Jon

Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants…

— Mac Miller

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

— Charles Mingus

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or…

— Twyla Tharp

Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was…

— A-Trak

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or…

— John Kao

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as…

— Winston Marshall

I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary, because it…

— Thomas Koner

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really…

— A-Trak

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we…

— Mike Portnoy