Kaskade Music Quotes & Sayings

Music is not disposable, people. We can twist it, sample it, mash it and experience it in endless ways. Open up. — Kaskade

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal. — Lily Allen

Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance. — Kaskade

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought. — Kaskade

There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness. — Kaskade

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. — Kaskade

I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.' — Kaskade

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

I don't need the factory behind me. I just need help getting my music heard. — Kaskade

It's an honor for me to close out Mysteryland. In American music history this is hallowed ground. I think electronic music has a lot in common with the spirit of rock and roll and what Woodstock had going on at the time. We are kind of the new kids on the block and this music isn't accepted by everyone so we are still kind of getting into pop culture and I think its appropriate that this festival is here and kicking down the door. — Kaskade

It's impossible to recreate music from the past. Music always states the truth. — Kaskade

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.' — Kaskade

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns. — Kaskade

I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow. — Kaskade

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing. — Chris Rock

I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it. — Kaskade

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

Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses. — Kaskade

I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff. — Kaskade

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago. — Kaskade

But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other. — Kaskade

Work hard, and then let the universe take you where you're meant to go. — Alysia Reiner

Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me. — Kaskade

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me. — Kaskade

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps. — Kaskade

For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds. — Michel Ocelot

I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health. — Kaskade

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places. — Kaskade

I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out. — Kaskade

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another ... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based. — Kaskade

Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty? — Garth Risk Hallberg

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others. — Kaskade

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

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work. — Kaskade

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called. — Richard Petty