--- title: "82 DJ Spooky Quotes - Famous Disc jockey (Sound unbound)" description: "DJ Spooky quotes on music metaphors, sensory overload, and futuristic myths." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dj-spooky-29627.jpg" --- ![Portrait of DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dj-spooky-29627.jpg) # DJ Spooky (1970) Disc Jockey United States **82** quotes in **556** categories DJ Spooky compares the world to a huge record that we have to learn to play. He says his work tries to make sense of an overloaded, noisy world and that myths about the near future help us explore the present. He also marvels at Antarctica’s pure ice geometry. Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet DJ Spooky is a disc jockey from the United States, best known for *Sound unbound*. ## Quick Facts About DJ Spooky Born September 6, 1970 Nationality United States Profession Disc Jockey Notable works Sound unbound ## About DJ Spooky Paul Dennis Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of Origin magazine. ## Quotes by DJ Spooky > [Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-information-that-can-change-at-any/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/dj-spooky-8230_change_our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-inform_2457274.jpg) > [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/) [Deals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deals/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ed/dj-spooky-8230_deals_i-have-to-deal-with-some-dumb-folks-it-s_529231.jpg) > [What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/what-i-m-going-for-with-the-string-arrangements-for-my-antarctic/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Arrangements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrangements/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/dj-spooky-8230_arrangements_what-i-m-going-for-with-the-string-arran_1459720.jpg) > [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/) [Bigs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bigs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/dj-spooky-8230_bigs_the-world-is-a-very-very-very-big-record_202747.jpg) > [To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/to-me-the-imagination-is-the-ultimate-renewable-resource/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Imagination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagination/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb8/dj-spooky-8230_imagination_to-me-the-imagination-is-the-ultimate-re_2640878.jpg) > [The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/the-most-scarce-resource-we-have-these-days-is-the-idea/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Idea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/idea/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1e/dj-spooky-8230_idea_the-most-scarce-resource-we-have-these-d_2966897.jpg) > [If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/if-you-don-t-understand-the-past-the-future-won-t-make-much-sense/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/future/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ec/dj-spooky-8230_ifs_if-you-don-t-understand-the-past-the-fut_2221427.jpg) > [You're only as good as your record collection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/you-re-only-as-good-as-your-record-collection/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Collection](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/collection/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/dj-spooky-8230_collection_you-re-only-as-good-as-your-record-colle_3007309.jpg) > [I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-think-science-fiction-and-sound-is-a-really-interesting-thing-you/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Fiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fiction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/dj-spooky-8230_fiction_i-think-science-fiction-and-sound-is-a-r_1443693.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/) [Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0d/dj-spooky-8230_beauty_i-m-talking-like-just-the-beauty-but-at_3188122.jpg) > [You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part…](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/) [Band](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/band/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f51/dj-spooky-8230_band_you-know-you-don-t-really-need-the-band_339801.jpg) > [First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/first-and-foremost-one-i-was-never-planning-on-doing-this-as-a-long/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [College](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/college/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c07/dj-spooky-8230_college_first-and-foremost-one-i-was-never-plann_1375734.jpg) > [I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-think-that-electronic-music-mirrors-the-complexity-of-information/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Complexity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complexity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ca/dj-spooky-8230_complexity_i-think-that-electronic-music-mirrors-th_2016913.jpg) > [The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/the-easiest-thing-i-can-say-is-simple-but-paradoxical-in-this-era-of/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Copy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/copy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/dj-spooky-8230_eras_the-easiest-thing-i-can-say-is-simple-bu_1777656.jpg) > [So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/so-one-that-dj-spooky-is-a-lot-you-know-this-sort-of-wilder-persona/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Bolts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bolts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/dj-spooky-8230_bolts_so-one-that-dj-spooky-is-a-lot-you-know_2006956.jpg) > [I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-felt-like-on-one-hand-the-clarity-of-thought-was-amazing-but-on-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Clarity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clarity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/817/dj-spooky-8230_clarity_i-felt-like-on-one-hand-the-clarity-of-t_3065361.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/) [Becoming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/becoming/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/dj-spooky-8230_becoming_if-i-take-that-person-and-play-them-as-a_2136447.jpg) > [What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/what-i-wanted-to-try-and-figure-out-was-okay-in-contemporary-21st/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [21st century](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/21st-century/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/dj-spooky-8230_21st-century_what-i-wanted-to-try-and-figure-out-was_1320402.jpg) > [Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry,…](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/) [Antarctica](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antarctica/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dab/dj-spooky-8230_antarctica_antarctica-one-of-the-things-that-was-so_350442.jpg) > [Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that…](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/) [Algorithms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/algorithms/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc7/dj-spooky-8230_algorithms_randomness-has-an-incredibly-powerful-pl_548539.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/) [Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/dj-spooky-8230_ability_i-ve-tended-to-find-that-myths-of-the-ne_431446.jpg) > [So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/so-yeah-how-do-i-think-of-my-environment-and-what-happens-with-sound/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d78/dj-spooky-8230_art_so-yeah-how-do-i-think-of-my-environment_1641191.jpg) > [Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/try-this-experiment-closing-your-eyes-and-navigating-with-your-ears/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Bounce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bounce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f80/dj-spooky-8230_bounce_try-this-experiment-closing-your-eyes-an_1369392.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/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7d/dj-spooky-8230_book_phonetics-you-know-speech-all-this-kind_1380573.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/) [Antarctica](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antarctica/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0e/dj-spooky-8230_antarctica_watching-40-mile-chunks-of-ice-break-off_2676542.jpg) > [Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/downtown-new-york-i-m-within-certain-styles-of-music-and-i-m-also/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Certain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fec/dj-spooky-8230_certain_downtown-new-york-i-m-within-certain-sty_3141073.jpg) > [For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/for-me-dj-culture-with-its-obsession-with-collecting-records-and/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Bypass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bypass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/dj-spooky-8230_bypass_for-me-dj-culture-with-its-obsession-wit_2424302.jpg) > [Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/try-this-experiment-one-day-go-in-a-record-store-and-just-try-and/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Album cover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/album-cover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/089/dj-spooky-8230_album-cover_try-this-experiment-one-day-go-in-a-reco_2198795.jpg) > [Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say "Well the album…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-record-for-an-album-but-what/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Albums](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/albums/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/dj-spooky-8230_albums_usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-recor_2230628.jpg) > [In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/in-fact-if-you-look-at-the-root-word-of-phonograph-it-just-means/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Facts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/facts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/dj-spooky-8230_facts_in-fact-if-you-look-at-the-root-word-of_3203104.jpg) > [Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in…](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/) [20th century](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/20th-century/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/dj-spooky-8230_20th-century_now-if-you-think-about-the-20th-century_660173.jpg) > [We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/we-live-in-a-world-so-utterly-infused-with-digitality-that-it-makes/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a9/dj-spooky-8230_action_we-live-in-a-world-so-utterly-infused-wi_1946767.jpg) > [ Reality itself is \[made up of\] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/reality-itself-is-made-up-of-chance-processes-linked-to-sets-of-rules/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11c/dj-spooky-8230_chance_reality-itself-is-made-up-of-chance-proc_2092342.jpg) > [I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're…](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/) [Bombarded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bombarded/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/dj-spooky-8230_bombarded_i-d-say-most-of-my-work-is-just-trying-t_411864.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/) [Ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/dj-spooky-8230_ideas_i-like-the-idea-of-it-as-a-trickster-mot_2438680.jpg) > [Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/freud-is-usually-viewed-as-the-person-who-linked-psychoanalysis-to/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Environment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/environment/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/dj-spooky-8230_environment_freud-is-usually-viewed-as-the-person-wh_1415252.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/) [Engaging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/engaging/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/dj-spooky-8230_engaging_i-usually-am-very-specific-about-how-i-e_761621.jpg) > [The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/the-idea-of-a-visual-icon-that-gives-you-a-sense-of-information-very/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Giving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/giving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/dj-spooky-8230_giving_the-idea-of-a-visual-icon-that-gives-you_2079585.jpg) > [I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-was-never-planning-on-being-a-musician-it-s-basically-a-hobby-that/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Hobbies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hobbies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d3/dj-spooky-8230_hobbies_i-was-never-planning-on-being-a-musician_1204912.jpg) > [My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/my-work-is-all-about-creating-new-paths-for-thinking-about-the/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Another world](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/another-world/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/dj-spooky-8230_another-world_my-work-is-all-about-creating-new-paths_1508281.jpg) ## DJ Spooky by topic [Knows (23)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/knows/dj-spooky/) [Kind (22)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/dj-spooky/) [People (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/dj-spooky/) [Sound (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sound/dj-spooky/) [Thinking (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thinking/dj-spooky/) [Music (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music/dj-spooky/) [Way (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/dj-spooky/) [Ifs (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/dj-spooky/) [Ideas (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/dj-spooky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/#itemlist", "name": "DJ Spooky Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "DJ Spooky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-information-that-can-change-at-any/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/dj-spooky-8230_change_our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-inform_2457274.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/dj-spooky-8230_change_our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-inform_2457274.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/dj-spooky-8230_change_our-contemporary-life-is-based-on-inform_2457274.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.” — DJ Spooky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have to deal with some dumb folks. 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You can go away now.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "DJ Spooky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-record-for-an-album-but-what/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/dj-spooky-8230_albums_usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-recor_2230628.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/dj-spooky-8230_albums_usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-recor_2230628.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/dj-spooky-8230_albums_usually-bands-would-make-a-song-to-recor_2230628.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say \"Well the…” — DJ Spooky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 30, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. 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