Jessica Origliasso Quotes

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

I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put out like DJ Shadow but I think, out of all of them, Leftism really just excited my musical brain in terms of the way that they mixed real instruments with dance tracks.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

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

I was thinking about working with Lady Gaga, not 'Born This Way' but more her old stuff that she did with RedOne from her first album. I think that would be really fun - a cool combination.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.

Europe in general is a great place for me, but specifically Germany has been very good to me. Germans love classical music... Electronic dance music is massive over there, so I'm kind of the marriage between the two.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.

I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

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.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

You have to be open-minded, because it's so diverse nowadays. I used to be a deep trance DJ, and now I've transformed into something eclectic. So you can expect any kind of music, from house to electro to indie-rock to techno and trance. I have very wide musical tastes nowadays.

I really prefer electric music.

The '80s definitely influence my music in a big way.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

For me, I actually come from an electronic dance music background: house music, electro house, trance music, even. When I was coming out of school, basically, I discovered Brain Fever, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and all that. That was when I got excited about hip-hop and when the Flume project started.

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