Max Joseph Quotes

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

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 create vibe-y dance music.

I have long been a fan of Holy Ghost! and think they've got the best dance grooves around.

As much my music is dance music, it is also pop.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

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

My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.

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.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music really require a different way of listening.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

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

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.

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

I like a lot of that Chicago stuff, house music.