Jon Hopkins Quotes

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

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

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

I listen to 'deep dish house'.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

I think that party music will live forever.

I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

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

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 used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

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've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO [Yellow Magic Orchestra] which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

House music is the root of all electronic dance music.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.

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