I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — 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… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe… — 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
