David Guetta Quotes

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 used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.

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.

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.

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.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

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.

I am associated with techno epics.

I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.

I was DJ'ing house music way back when - I'm not like a new house guy.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

I'm all about Ibiza, dance. I'm a bit of a Tulisa kid to be honest.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

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

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

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.

Then I just moved into being a DJ when that turned into the hottest thing.

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.