Roisin Murphy Quotes

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

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.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

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.

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

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

The Juan McLean is great.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.

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

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

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.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

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