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“The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.” quote by David Toop — Download Open image

“The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.”

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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

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Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning…

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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…

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Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.

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I was associated with the Artist Placement Group in the early 1970s and David Hall, the video artist, was an Artist Placement Group artist. I was completely broke at that time, and he said to me, "Come and do some teaching" - he was head of department at Maidstone College of Art. And I went and did a couple of…

I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was…

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At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend…

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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…

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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 him. He called me up and he said, "I really like the book, and I'm starting a new label, would you liked to do something?" It was a tricky situation for me, because I've always had…

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…

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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…

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We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record?" I said, "Well, how am I going to do that?" I thought about it, and I'd been working on a lot of music in the years before, and I was working as a journalist,…

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I've certainly seen a lot of my cartoonist friends embrace 'Little Lulu' in a much deeper way because their kids love it so much. But that's not gonna be happening for me. There are no kids coming.

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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

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I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where…

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