Winston Marshall Quotes

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

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'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I am associated with techno epics.

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

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

Moving to L.A., I got really into hip-hop and trap music and basically a lot of the sounds you would maybe normally see in a festival, but for whatever reason, I was so involved in vinyl and house at the time, I didn't even know that I liked trap.

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

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

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.

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

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

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

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

I'm into a lot of music, definitely a lot of rap. 'Dedication 4', the Lil' Wayne album. Actually, I've been getting into some Swedish house music; the beat just keeps me going a little bit.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

I love Disclosure. Dillon Francis. Bauuer. Flosstradamus. I listen to a lot of different genres.

I'm crossing the EDM barrier.

Floating Points plays a lot of music that I don't know, and I like geeking out and trying to find out what the tracks are. His knowledge of house music is pretty deep, and his selection is just amazing. And I think it's a pleasure to listen to his music because it's so perfectly produced.

Dance music has evolved very much. From DJs playing at the Olympics, to playing at the Super Bowl, working with Cirque Du Soleil and even getting recognized at the Grammys with awards, dance music is growing in a big way.