Little Louie Vega Quotes

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

Nothing wrong about EDM. Great songs came out of it, but there was a period when everything had to have a pace of 128 bpm and be DJ-related.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

I have been a huge fan of Major Lazer for a long time and they have done a phenomenal job in redefining dance music across the globe.

I've always enjoyed dancing and going clubbing. I've always been interested in electronic music. I would love more than anything to see my music mutate into something that would be played in clubs. For sure.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.

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.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

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.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

There have been a lot of people involved in the growth of EDM's support in the U.S., from DJ/producers like David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Skrillex, to major festival organisers and pop artists of EDM integrating elements of dance music into their music.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

Miami is a really special place for me, particularly in the U.S. It was one of the first places in the country to really embrace dance music, and I've been going there for many, many years.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

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.

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.