Bernard Sumner Quotes

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

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

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.

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.

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.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

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

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'm not a DJ, I don't know how to scratch and I don't know how to mix, but I do know how to party. One of my jobs is actually to travel the world and party.

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.

I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.

I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

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.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

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

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

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.