--- title: "17 People Quotes By DJ Spooky" description: "17 People quotes by DJ Spooky. Plus more from DJ Spooky and more People sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg" --- > [I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-engage-information-how-i/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg) > [I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-like-the-idea-of-it-as-a-trickster-motif-you-know-like-you-re-kind/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/dj-spooky-8230_ideas_i-like-the-idea-of-it-as-a-trickster-mot_2438680.jpg) > [There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/there-is-a-complexity-and-layering-that-goes-on-with-this-kind-of/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/dj-spooky-8230_complexity_there-is-a-complexity-and-layering-that_2478853.jpg) > [So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/so-sound-art-i-m-always-intrigued-with-how-little-we-use-of-other/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/dj-spooky-8230_art_so-sound-art-i-m-always-intrigued-with-h_2609873.jpg) > [Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/most-people-walk-around-with-headphones-on-they-re-barely/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ec/dj-spooky-8230_car_most-people-walk-around-with-headphones_1704168.jpg) > [I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-m-talking-like-just-the-beauty-but-at-the-same-time-to-get-people/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0d/dj-spooky-8230_beauty_i-m-talking-like-just-the-beauty-but-at_3188122.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/it-s-an-essay-that-sigmund-freud-wrote-about-e-t-a-hoffman-s-short/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb2/dj-spooky-8230_breathing_it-s-an-essay-that-sigmund-freud-wrote-a_1862578.jpg) > [So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/so-bach-beethoven-duke-ellington-thelonius-monk-these-are-all-people/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/dj-spooky-8230_dukes_so-bach-beethoven-duke-ellington-theloni_780037.jpg) > [On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/on-one-hand-you-have-a-string-quartet-which-is-not-a-symphony-on-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/dj-spooky-8230_borrowed_on-one-hand-you-have-a-string-quartet-wh_2501322.jpg) > [You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/you-know-in-the-sentence-of-humanity-this-place-needs-to-be-a/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5a/dj-spooky-8230_bottom_you-know-in-the-sentence-of-humanity-thi_1510977.jpg) > [Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/watching-40-mile-chunks-of-ice-break-off-of-antarctica-will-change/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0e/dj-spooky-8230_antarctica_watching-40-mile-chunks-of-ice-break-off_2676542.jpg) > [You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/you-know-we-re-in-a-planet-surrounded-by-certain-kinds-of-frequencies/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/dj-spooky-8230_black_you-know-we-re-in-a-planet-surrounded-by_2773746.jpg) > [In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/in-my-book-sound-unbound-we-traced-the-guy-who-actually-came-up-with/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/dj-spooky-8230_album-cover_in-my-book-sound-unbound-we-traced-the-g_846866.jpg) > [When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/when-you-say-what-is-the-difference-between-me-and-my-stage-name-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/dj-spooky-8230_certain_when-you-say-what-is-the-difference-betw_469948.jpg) > [I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-ve-tended-to-find-that-myths-of-the-near-future-give-people-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/dj-spooky-8230_ability_i-ve-tended-to-find-that-myths-of-the-ne_431446.jpg) > [If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/if-i-take-that-person-and-play-them-as-a-record-i-m-becoming-not-only/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/dj-spooky-8230_becoming_if-i-take-that-person-and-play-them-as-a_2136447.jpg) > [Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/phonetics-you-know-speech-all-this-kind-of-stuff-phonograph-simple/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/dj-spooky-8230_book_phonetics-you-know-speech-all-this-kind_1380573.jpg) ## Other authors on People - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 856 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rush-limbaugh-81741.jpg) Rush Limbaugh 843 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/rush-limbaugh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 724 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 624 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 488 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 367 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-w-bush-38036.jpg) George W. 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Maxwell 249 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/john-c-maxwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 244 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/terry-pratchett/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 223 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/bill-gates/) ## More by DJ Spooky > [The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/the-world-is-a-very-very-very-big-record-we-just-have-to-learn-how-to/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-can-only-wonder-what-astronauts-must-feel-like-or-something-like/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-think-record-cover-sleeves-really-led-towards-but-at-the-same-time/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/you-know-you-don-t-really-need-the-band-or-the-singer-songwriter-in/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/antarctica-one-of-the-things-that-was-so-remarkable-about-it-was-that/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-d-say-most-of-my-work-is-just-trying-to-make-sense-of-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-ve-tended-to-find-that-myths-of-the-near-future-give-people-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/when-you-say-what-is-the-difference-between-me-and-my-stage-name-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-have-to-deal-with-some-dumb-folks-it-s-a-real-drag/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/randomness-has-an-incredibly-powerful-place-in-our-culture-if-you/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/sound-if-you-look-at-bats-you-know-that-navigate-with-sonar-they-re/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/now-if-you-think-about-the-20th-century-and-the-idea-of-visual/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/with-multimedia-everything-blurs-software-takes-the-concept-of-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/dj-culture-is-all-about-collage-sampling-splicing-dicing-everything/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) > [I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the research that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-engage-information-how-i/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/dj-spooky/#itemlist", "name": "17 People Quotes By DJ Spooky", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the research that goes into each of those.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "DJ Spooky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-engage-information-how-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging…” — DJ Spooky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. 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