Kyla Reid Quotes

I am a disco king.

I've created a new sound. I've actually brought back dancing and vibes; it's more universal.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

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.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

I definitely like to go out and dance. I'm a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it.

In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our house, a big, huge dance floor that we all dance on.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places.

My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.

I never really did any disco dancing.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.