--- title: "Best DJ Spooky Sayings" description: "Paul Dennis Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is of..." 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 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 · Page 3 > [DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/dj-spooky-was-meant-to-be-a-kind-of-ironic-take-on-that-it-was-always/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54d/dj-spooky-8230_ambiguous_dj-spooky-was-meant-to-be-a-kind-of-iron_2341688.jpg) > [I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/i-wanted-to-do-is-kind-of-invoke-that-and-then-dive-into-that-kind-of/) [DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a25/dj-spooky-8230_beats_i-wanted-to-do-is-kind-of-invoke-that-an_1672687.jpg) ## DJ Spooky by topic [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/) [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": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. 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