Quote

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.

DJ Spooky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

DJ Spooky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 6
Composer
Disc Jockey
Musician
Record Producer
Washington
District of Columbia
Paul D. Miller
That Subliminal Kid
Thinking
Albums
Century
Occupies
Space
Vocabulary
Idea
Visuals
Ideas
Visual
Important
Album
Really
Cultural
Think
Landscape

More quotes by DJ Spooky

Image
I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative process. Let's go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.
DJ Spooky
Image
I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.
DJ Spooky
Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does composition evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions.
DJ Spooky
Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.
DJ Spooky
Image
So he [Sigmund Freud] called this the uncanny and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.
DJ Spooky
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 bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.
DJ Spooky
Image
My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art another world is possible!
DJ Spooky
Image
The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of The Unheimlich.
DJ Spooky
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 palette.
DJ Spooky
Image
So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.
DJ Spooky
Image
So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want to see everything and navigate. You know the art world is similar. Like I wish people would use their ears a lot more.
DJ Spooky
Image
To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.
DJ Spooky
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 a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.
DJ Spooky
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 they're in this kind of cocoon, stuck in suburban rush hour traffic or something.
DJ Spooky
Image
I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A
DJ Spooky
Image
What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.
DJ Spooky
Image
So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.
DJ Spooky
Image
It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.
DJ Spooky
Image
I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.
DJ Spooky
Image
The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ Spooky