Best Electronic Music Quotes & Sayings

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real. — Eva Simons

Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. — Skrillex

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global. — DJ Spooky

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch, — Thomas Bangalter

I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. — DJ Spooky

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well. — Matt Tong

Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer. — Tom Bailey

Three days later, Mrs. Dalloway was in the hall, blocking the classroom door. 'Hi there, Dick. Are you prone to seizures?'
'Uh, no.'
Thirty minutes later I was wishing I'd said 'Uh, yes,' because then she's have had to turn off the strobe light. Then again, it might not have made a difference; the loud electronic music and Mrs. D's yelling probably would have been enough to do me in anyway. — Mindi Scott

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison

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

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating. — Justin Broadrick

Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. — Skrillex

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. — Bela Fleck

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible. — Drake Bell

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. — David Bowie

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music. — Brendon Urie

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music. — Jose Gonzalez

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music. — Chino Moreno

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. — Marcus Brigstocke

I've been making electronic music for twenty some odd years but, because I grew up playing in punk rock bands, when I started touring, I thought in order to be a viable touring musician I had to do it with a band. I would DJ or tour with a full rock band. — Moby

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles. — Ben Saunders

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there. — Bjork

There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for. — Thomas Bangalter

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song. — Zedd

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music. — Johnny Marr

I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music. — Kaskade

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

I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. — Ha-Joon Chang

I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something. — Glenn Branca

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring. — Max Tundra

The good thing, really, is that electronic music started as a fringe subculture, and now it's the biggest youth culture in the world. People pretty much everywhere go crazy for electronic music. — Paul Van Dyk

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. — Mojo Nixon