Kerli Quotes

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.

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.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

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.

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.

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

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.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

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

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

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

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 think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.

It's the music that brings us together.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

Music brings unity.

Our aim is to bring everyone together through BABYMETAL's music.

I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.

My uncle, who gave me my first turntables when I was ten, also gave me records to mix, but I never understood house music. I thought it was boring until I was old enough to go to a club and feel it, the fact that it actually makes you just want to dance.

I love that music will bring people together, because the world is full of negativity.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.