Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking. — David Toop Copy Share Image
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. — 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