Top 29 Dubstep Quotes & Sayings

When dubstep was big, Ubisoft told the composer for 'Far Cry 3' to make dubstep and to me that was really weird.

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

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

Most helmsmen would’ve been satisfied with a pilot’s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a dubstep soundboard, and motion-control sensors from a Nintendo Wii. He could turn the ship by pulling on the throttle, fire weapons by sampling an album, or raise sails by shaking his Wii controllers really fast. Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

I want to make dubstep something beautiful.

Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

When dubstep came out, I loved it.

I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it's not him, you think it's him.

If I like dubstep and electronic, why don't I make the violin fit me rather than making myself fit the violin?

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

I saw someone label me as a dubstep producer but I'm definitely not a dubstep producer. There's nothing wrong with that, though, because that's major. But it's like a school bus driver being labeled as a NASCAR driver. I would love to be a NASCAR driver, but I drive buses for a living.

It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.

Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.

I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.

My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of.

I don't think I represent all things dubstep. I just like clubbing, so those are the sounds I've chosen to work with.

I want people to focus on listening, not the image. And I want to play to everyone: rednecks, dubstep kids, punk rockers, and people who like as-real-as-it-gets country music.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.