So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
