110 House Music Quotes

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Famous House Music Quotes

House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right. — Frankie Knuckles

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur. — Axwell

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. — Bill Laswell

Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres. — Avicii

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. — Steve Aoki

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. — Tiesto

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. - Giorgio Moroder

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. — Giorgio Moroder

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art. — Richie Hawtin

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are — Tom DeLonge

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality. — Danny Masterson

Dance is music made visible — George Balanchine

Music is my religion. — Jimi Hendrix

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. — Peter Tork

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. — will.i.am

Disco is just pop music you can dance to. — Sheena Easton

Short House Music Quotes

  • Music is the medicine of the mind. — John A. Logan
  • Music is a safe kind of high. — Jimi Hendrix
  • Music should be your escape. — Missy Elliot
  • Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet — Jeff Mills
  • Music is the strongest form of magic. — Marilyn Manson
  • Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. — Giorgio Moroder
  • Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. — Pierre Boulez
  • I'm a DJ. I get the party started. — Avicii
  • Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. — Stevie Wonder
  • Music can change the world. — Ludwig van Beethoven

House Music Image Quotes

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. - H. L. Mencken quote

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H. L. Mencken

House music quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

House Quotes

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. — Rod Stewart

A house is a machine for living in. - Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier

House music quote Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. — Adi Shankara

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken

House music quote The earth has music for those who listen.
The earth has music for those who listen.

You do know it cost money to put a t-shirt on your back? You do know it cost money have a house? You do know it cost money to eat? Get money, don't let these people fool you. — DJ Khaled

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. - Shams Tabrizi

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. — Shams Tabrizi

I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media . — David Duke

I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds

Music Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. — Bob Marley

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally. — Kevin Gates

House music quote A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley

House music quote Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it. — Maurice White

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Andersen

Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited. — Al-Ghazali

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. — George Carlin

Animal House Quotes

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. — Tom Regan

I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal. — Jake Paul

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead. — Paris Hilton

House music quote The words you speak become the house you live in.
The words you speak become the house you live in.

ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. — Ambrose Bierce

A house is not a home until it has a dog. - Gerald Durrell

A house is not a home until it has a dog. — Gerald Durrell

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. — Francis Galton

House music quote The words you speak become the house you live in.
The words you speak become the house you live in.

Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway. — Andrew Dice Clay

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree. — Gretel Ehrlich

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. — Bob Hope

Big Houses Quotes

A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. - Victoria Beckham

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. — Victoria Beckham

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. — Johnny Carson

House music quote A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Success can never be measured by big houses, luxury cars, or fancy clothes. For me, greatness can only be measured by what we do for others… — Chatri Sityodtong

No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail. — Jerome Powell

House music quote People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise
People are like Music, some speak the truth and other are just noise

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight. — Helmut Kohl

I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. — Florence Welch

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. — Arne Jacobsen

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. — Bernard Goldberg

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More House Music Quotes

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. — Simon Beaufoy

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. — Renzo Piano

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in. — Ava Gardner

House music quote Music is the emotional life of most people.
Music is the emotional life of most people.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother. — Ian Gillan

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. — Jack White

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up. — Lady Gaga

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. — Francis Ford Coppola

Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad. — Sia Furler

Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts. — Paco de Lucia

Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance. — Bradley Nowell

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. — Arthur Rubinstein

I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but no television. And really, I very quickly realized that this was, you know, there was magic there, there was magic to be had, you could lose yourself in it, it was a refuge, it was joy, it was all of those things. — Hans Zimmer

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told. — Harpo Marx

You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris... — Fetty Wap

Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?' — Minnie Pearl

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass! — Meshell Ndegeocello

She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house. — Carson Mccullers

My favorite advice that I always go to is ever since I was in middle school is from my mom. Every day before I left the house, she would say "Remember who you are." Every day. So when I started getting into music, every day she sends me a text saying, "Remember who you are and remember why you're doing this." — Kelsea Ballerini

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music. — Avicii

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. — Nelson Mandela

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. — Irvine Welsh

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk. — Timothy B. Schmit

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. — Fatboy Slim

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name — Stephen Stills

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood. — Jimmy Page

If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here. — Goldie

From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology. — William James

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well. — Aretha Franklin

Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like. — Ellie Goulding

House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it. — Laidback Luke

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house. — Jean Cocteau

When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke. — Avicii

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house — Johnny Winter

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French. — Thomas Bangalter

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. — Ben van Berkel

I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will. — Jane Hirshfield

I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!' — David Guetta

I'm influenced by the music of the '60s. It's a mishmash of everything. To me, psychedelic can be all the way to a DJ. House music can be very psychedelic. 'Flying Lotus' is very psychedelic. Even though it's urban and technological, it's also mind-expanding, anything-can-go mishmash. — Anton Newcombe

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe. — Pitbull

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'. — Emanuel Celler

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. — Edie Falco

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