One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy. — David Toop Copy Share Image
I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed. — David Toop Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The Musicians Union declared you couldn't mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you've got a studio-based record that you'd… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist.… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was… — David Toop Copy Share Image
At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend… — David Toop Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to… — David Toop Copy Share Image
There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with… — David Toop Copy Share Image
The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do. — David Toop Copy Share Image
I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too… — David Toop Copy Share Image
We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I don't mean I give the same intensity to everything I do - if I did that, I'd be dead, but I'm very conscious,… — David Toop Copy Share Image
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![“I think I sent one [book] to Brian Eno. I don't know how I got to know his address, but I sent one to him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had this thing in…” quote by David Toop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/345/david-toop-17674_addresses_i-think-i-sent-one-book-to-brian-eno-i-d_738455.jpg)
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