Armin van Buuren Quotes

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

Engineering producers who don't play and have technology as a background may be the reason why there's a lot of cold non-musical music, for lack of a better description.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.