Talking about electronic dance music is hard. How does one describe a genre that is almost completely instrumental? Without lyrics to act as your life buoys, it's easy to get lost in a sea of meaningless adjectives or boring technical breakdowns. You could just let the music do the talking. Or you can ask some of the sound's most famous creators what they think.Here are ten of our all-time favorite quotes:A GUY CALLED GERALD"Never trust a DJ who can't dance." [Electronic Beats, 2006]MARC SCHNEIDER"Half the clubs in Berlin are made of concrete and steel. The other half is built out of driftwood and glitter." [DJBroadcast.net, 2014]LOU REED"I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious." [WPIX, 1979]BJORKJEFF MILLS"[Techno] wasn't designed to be dance music, it was designed to be a futurist statement." [The Skinny, 2013]Joshua Glazer has been chasing the rave since 1995 - @JoshuaGlazer
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DEADMAU5"There's still button-pushers getting paid half a million. And not to say I'm not a button-pusher. I'm just pushing a lot more buttons." [Rolling Stone, 2012]GRANDMASTER FLASH"This record by Kraftwerk is great. I can even go to the bathroom while I play it…It mixes itself!" [Unknown source]DJ HARVEY"You can't understand the blues until you've had your heart broken by a woman, and you can't understand my music until you've had group sex on Ecstasy." [CMJ.com, 2011]RICARDO VILLALOBOS"You hear the music, and you start to think about your childhood, you start to think about your problems. You feel something, incredible things. This happens sometimes, for sure, with classic music, or when you are sober, when you are in a normal state of mind. But at this intensity, it can happen only with drugs." [Feiern – Don't Forget To Go Home, 2006]
DERRICK MAY"The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company." [Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit compilation, 1998]
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