Erik Hassle Quotes

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

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.

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

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 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.

I've been sampled at least 71 times. Me, James Brown and George Clinton, we're the ones who've been sampled the most.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever... All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

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

I started listening to old school R&B artists like Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, and Donny Hathaway when I was in 6th grade.

I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

My music is a little bit of everything - R&B, hip-hop, EDM.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

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

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.

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

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

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.

People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all those great records by Marvin Gaye and James Brown back in the day - there are tonnes of jazz musicians playing on them.

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

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.