Trevor Horn Quotes

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

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

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 spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

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

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

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.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

I produce electronic kind of music, like EDM kind of stuff.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.