Interviews Quotes by David Toop

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

— David Toop

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

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

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

— David Toop

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

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

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

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

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

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

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

— David Toop

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