Club Music Quotes

My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.

I started DJ-ing in the '90s. DJ-ing is in every record I do. When I make records I make them for DJs.

I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.

EDM is very functional. It's meant to make people jump up and down and go crazy and it's real good at that. I just think in terms of expression, it's very very limiting.

The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.

As a producer and DJ, I just like makin' great music and hot records for the club.

The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what 'Off the Wall' is. Or 'I Feel Love' or 'Rock Your Baby' with George McCrae.

My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'

Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.

Stefflon Don songs go off in the club... well, basically, anywhere people hear them.

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

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

Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.

I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.

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

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

I listen to a lot of twerk anthems.

I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.

Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

Making music you can dance to is very important to me.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.