Artist Quote by Sean Paul

When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers.…

— Shaggy

The whole appeal of dance music is being liberated because music is liberating and it's not about club culture or the social aspect of…

— Memory Tapes

You look at like the '70s, the messianic presence of the artist - it was very much about an audience gathering to watch this…

— Matty Healy

Dancehall is just like hip-hop in that it doesn't always talk about bling; it talks about conscious issues.

— Sean Paul

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance…

— Stephen Boss

To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music…

— Robyn

I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and…

— Afrojack

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of…

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

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

— Gregory Orr

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

— Kreesha Turner

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.

— Craig David

Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful…

— Darren Fletcher