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  • When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. -- Tina Weymouth
  • The way Electronic Dance Music [EDM] is manipulated and exported to the world is a very strong, and "total" concept. But it's not that interesting artistically. EDM is seen by some media as a kickstarter for kids who have no idea how deep dance music can go. -- Eddy de Clercq
  • Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. -- Avicii
  • There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music. -- Calvin Harris
  • Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me. -- Jessie Ware
  • I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre. -- Mika
  • Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt. -- Steve Aoki
  • Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. -- Steve Aoki
  • It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community. -- Jonathan Davis
  • Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut. -- Diplo
  • This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me. -- Tori Amos
  • We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. -- Tina Weymouth
  • I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that. -- Darren Aronofsky
  • I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop. -- Sean Combs
  • The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. -- will.i.am
  • Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. -- Moby
  • 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 am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on. -- David Guetta
  • Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. -- Tiesto
  • I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free. -- Stan Kenton
  • All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. -- Moby
  • I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my own. When I started this, I didn't say, 'okay I'm going to do this step and then this step' to become popular. I just created music that I loved. -- Armin van Buuren
  • I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back. -- Carrie Ann Inaba
  • The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism. -- Steve Aoki
  • There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think. -- Chris Lowe
  • My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love. -- Afrojack
  • Dance is music made visible -- George Balanchine
  • See the music, hear the dance. -- George Balanchine
  • Let's face the music and dance. -- Irving Berlin
  • Gay nightclubs offer better dance music. -- Jack Davenport
  • The sound of music, makes me dance. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Americans are good at making dance music. -- Ed Simons
  • Calling all dance music producers! I'm available. -- Kristin Chenoweth
  • Music and dance are all you need. -- Moliere
  • Dance to the music of your soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • A dance to the music of time. -- Anthony Powell
  • Play your music so the earth can dance. -- Marty Rubin
  • I'm a big fan of electronic dance music. -- Brendon Urie
  • I love music and I love to dance. -- Jami Gertz
  • Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding. -- John Lennon
  • Disco is just pop music you can dance to. -- Sheena Easton
  • Music must be seen, and dance must be heard -- George Balanchine
  • If there is no dance, there is not music. -- Tito Puente
  • Baby, you must dance to the music of your soul! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Dance music was on its arse before we came along. -- Sergio Pizzorno
  • Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. -- Thelonious Monk
  • Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country. -- Afrojack
  • In Dance and Music, Silence swims to reach our soul. -- Nelly Mazloum
  • Silence composes the music of the cosmos; darkness sees it dance. -- Huseyn Raza
  • Listen to the Music of the Moment, people....Dance and Sing! -- Jason Mraz
  • We can all dance when we find music that we love. -- Giles Andreae
  • We all can dance when we find music that we love. -- Giles Andreae
  • My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. -- Ray Davies
  • To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end. -- Kate McCafferty
  • I love that way dance music can put you in a trance. -- Chet Faker
  • Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur -- Axwell
  • Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. -- Marty Rubin
  • Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. -- Giorgio Moroder
  • Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. -- William Stafford
  • I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature. -- Talib Kweli
  • Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance. -- Kaskade
  • Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion. -- Sonu Nigam
  • Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! -- Joe Lovano
  • Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. -- Anonymous
  • I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance. -- Joe Namath
  • Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them -- Chad Smith
  • Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres -- Avicii
  • Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. -- Anonymous
  • There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music. -- Eva Ibbotson
  • We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. -- Alain LeRoy Locke
  • I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music. -- Wilford W. Andersen
  • I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music. -- Dizzy Gillespie
  • My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to. -- Jordan Knight
  • It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me. -- Chuck Berry
  • There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music. -- Eva Ibbotson
  • Music is the language of the heart; it makes our soul dance with joy. -- Debasish Mridha
  • DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Dance, like music, is the expression of the human spirit. Dance is 'visual music'. -- S. Janaki
  • The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to. -- Stephen King
  • That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? -- Gregory Orr
  • Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out. -- Don McLean
  • Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around! -- Yoko Ono
  • I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot. -- Hilary Duff
  • I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too. -- Michael Kiwanuka
  • Hope is hearing the music of the future. Faith is to dance to it. -- Rubem Alves
  • Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -- Warren Bennis
  • Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. -- Warren Bennis
  • Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
  • but it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. -- Tom Waits
  • Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days. -- Eddy de Clercq
  • I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time. -- Kylie Minogue
  • Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music. -- Alexa Anderson
  • Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. -- Chinua Achebe
  • I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror. -- Alannah Myles
  • Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. -- Carl Sandburg
  • From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. -- Beth Orton
  • Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance. -- Bradley Nowell
  • Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe. -- Gotye
  • My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class. -- Anton du Beke
  • I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally. -- Suki Waterhouse
  • The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. -- Kaskade
  • Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. -- Alexander Pope
  • Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. -- Seth Troxler
  • Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions. -- Sarah Caldwell
  • I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial. -- Vera Farmiga
  • When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
  • With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
  • I dance around my living room to cheesy '80s aerobics music until I'm sweating really hard! -- Evangeline Lilly
  • Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. -- Narendra Modi
  • What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing. -- Steve Coogan
  • I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard. -- Hannah Moskowitz
  • Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy? -- James Stephens
  • I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me. -- DJ Shadow
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