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I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. -- Fred Durst
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. -- John Frusciante
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. -- Bill Laswell
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. -- Imogen Heap
I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment. -- Zedd
I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke. -- Avicii
I'm a huge electronic-music fan. -- Joseph Kosinski
I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning. -- Jonathan Davis
Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music. -- Afrojack
I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill. -- Ravi Shankar
I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology. -- Mike Shinoda
Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch, -- Thomas Bangalter
I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else. -- Marques Brownlee
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America. -- Tiesto
Electronic music, for me, has been the only real pioneering music that actually does push boundaries and is constantly futuristic. -- Justin Broadrick
In my teenage years I was as addicted to great pop as I was to free jazz, electronic music, and hardcore blues. -- Scott Walker
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
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much. -- Avicii
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'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison. -- Armin van Buuren
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music. -- Lukas Foss
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 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
Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. -- will.i.am
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it. -- David Byrne
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -- Kristen Wilson
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology. -- Luc Ferrari
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
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad. -- Trevor Horn
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting. -- Harmony Korine
Most pop albums I was looking at as examples to point out production elements had a song that made you want to dance. I've been listening to electronic music forever and I just wanted to have something dancey. -- Michelle Chamuel
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
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
When I started, DJs weren't in the media, electronic music wasn't in the sales charts and a DJ was the freak in the corner who provided the music while other people had fun. So to do it, you must have been a freak and a music lover. -- Paul van Dyk
I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician. -- Gary Numan
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. -- Ellie Goulding
In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. -- Ravi Shankar
I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part. -- Zedd
I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that. -- Squarepusher
I'm a big fan of electronic dance music. -- Brendon Urie
Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast. -- Chaz Bundick
I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I've started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive. -- Squarepusher
Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. -- Mojo Nixon
I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music. -- Chino Moreno
Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. -- Sivamani
Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years. -- Richie Hawtin
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy. -- Gerry Mulligan
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy -- Gerry Mulligan
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. -- Adam Lambert
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. -- Dhani Harrison
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. -- DJ Spooky
We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines. -- Thomas Bangalter
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. -- John Lydon
It's good to listen to electronic music when you're stressed out because you will feel a release afterwards. -- Seungri
I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music. -- Johnny Marr
I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop. -- Lykke Li
It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza. -- Paul Oakenfold
When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that. -- Sivamani
I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments. -- John Frusciante
We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not. -- Thomas Bangalter
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there. -- Kaskade
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else. -- Ellie Goulding
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 is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion. -- Nigel Godrich
My big problem is that I don't promote my electronic music very much because it makes my 'normal' fans angry! -- Suzanne Ciani
Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art. -- Richie Hawtin
I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman
I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak. -- Varg Vikernes
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways. -- Thomas Bangalter
I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either. -- Nicolas Jaar
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. -- David Bowie
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
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
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. -- Thomas Bangalter
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
I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that. -- Avey Tare
I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music. -- Paul Lansky
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
To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile. -- Pedro Winter
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is. -- David Guetta
Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music. -- Nadia Ali
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form. -- Bob Mould
I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK. -- Casey Spooner
I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrÃ¨te, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff. -- Keith Fullerton Whitman
I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music. -- Ice Cube
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way. -- Jim Coleman
If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy. -- Doug Martsch
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same? -- Seth Troxler
Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. #â?? RIP6MIX -- Erol Alkan
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
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
What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be. -- Justin Broadrick
What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based. -- Gwenno
It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. -- Thomas Bangalter
People from the rock and roll world have felt for years that electronic music had no soul, but now electronic music can not only have soul but have all the shapes in the world. -- Bjork
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music -- Hans Zimmer
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

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