Top 133 Techno Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet

I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.

The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail and absurdity like Borges's 'Aleph.'

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

Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.

I am associated with techno epics.

The future has both gritty and savage and clean and 'techno-hip.' I think it's a very realistic point of view.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my music in general is more in the tradition of techno. House is celebratory and extroverted. I don't connect with that sentiment.

Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today.

I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.

When I heard We Are the World do a techno version of one of my songs, I didn't know the word techno, but I said, "That percussion is astounding, will you help me do a piece?" Nobody said, "Techno isn't allowed for you."

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail.

I'm really not techno-savvy - that's just not my personality.

This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.

I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

Im a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.

The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.

I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.

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.

We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno sound that rocked the dancefloor. He was a favorite then and still is now.

I think, when I wrote 'Children of Jihad,' I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I'm also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I'm not a techno-utopian, but I'm a techno-pragmatist.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

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

I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

I'll leave a store if I hate the music. If it's just, like, techno, I feel like my brain is going to explode.

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

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

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.