Madonna Ciccone Quotes

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

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

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I love futurist music.

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

I listen to a lot of different kind of music. A lot of weird-ass music, like weird-ass, old Portishead.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

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 don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

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.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

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

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.