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I love house music. I love all music. -- Concha Buika
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. -- Win Butler
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music. -- Avicii
I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music. -- Wolfman Jack
Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance. -- Bradley Nowell
I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. -- Perry Farrell
I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men. -- Moby
I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music. -- Subb-an
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85. -- Boy George
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. -- Bill Laswell
America wasn't interested in the roots of house music because it was too black, it was too gay, it was all these things, and today it's made very sanitized and white. -- Felix Buxton
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. -- Irvine Welsh
I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out. -- Taylor Swift
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
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. -- Moby
Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood. -- Jimmy Page
I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock. -- Denzel Whitaker
I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school. -- Armin van Buuren
My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music. -- Eddy de Clercq
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music. -- Maud Welzen
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 am a good boy. Sweet. I love to chill. I have a select set of friends, am big on house music, love Goa. I don't read much. Though that is one habit I am trying to inculcate. -- Shahid Kapoor
I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion. -- Grandmaster Flash
Since I was gay and loved disco music, it was kinda pre-programmed that my first experiences with house music and acid - which I first heard in the late 80s, mainly through DÃ¼sseldorf's ruling clubs, Relaxx and Ratinger Hof - completely mesmerized me. -- Justus Kohncke
The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful. -- Paul Weller
I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy. -- Nick Frost
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. -- H. L. Mencken
I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car. -- Peter Tork
I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that. -- Randy Houser
I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun. -- Rob Lowe
House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it. -- Laidback Luke
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should. -- Dan Hill
House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all. -- Chris Lowe
I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally. -- Randy Houser
One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural. -- Randy Houser
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world. -- Avicii
In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free. -- Penelope Cruz
I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too. -- Randy Houser
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years? -- Randy Houser
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period. -- Randy Houser
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first. -- Randy Houser
I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French. -- Thomas Bangalter
I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. Flying Lotus is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash. -- Anton Newcombe
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment. -- Moby
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music. -- Randy Houser
One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.' -- Randy Houser
There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans. -- Randy Houser
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house. -- Estelle
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house -- Johnny Winter
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house. -- Johnny Winter
I listen to all kinds of music, but I really like deep house. -- Tiesto
If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house. -- Herbie Mann
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. -- Tori Amos
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. -- Pitbull
House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right. -- Frankie Knuckles
We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house. -- Bill Walton
I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing. -- Emma Watson
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop. -- Estelle
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances -- Rumi
The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music. -- James Vincent McMorrow
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always. -- Bjork
I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am. -- Nikki Reed
Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark! -- Bob Hope
Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet. -- Dido Armstrong
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that. -- Brian Eno
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. -- John Legend
Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow. -- Pete Townshend
I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house. -- Jillian Hervey
The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool. -- Jade Jagger
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. -- Harpo Marx
Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records. -- Mark Kozelek
I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good. -- Miranda Kerr
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. -- Renzo Piano
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first. -- Emmylou Harris
I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day. -- John Frusciante
My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball. -- Michael Franti
Games is like hardwired plumbing in the house of pop. It's not pop itself, its sort of like the behind-the-scenes arteries and capillaries of pop music. -- Daniel Lopatin
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time. -- Len Cariou
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house. -- Chet Faker
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
Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house. -- Jean Cocteau
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music. -- Ziggy Marley
In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free. -- Penelope Cruz
I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that. -- Girl Talk
My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything. -- Clare Bowen
My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house. -- Tori Kelly
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. -- Francis Ford Coppola

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