Moby Quotes

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

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.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

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.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

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.

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

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

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

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that's where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.

DJing is how I got into So So Def.

I am very fond of western genres, including EDM.

In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.