I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.
DJ SpookyThe idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."
DJ SpookyMusic, 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 SpookyThe easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ SpookyWhales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.
DJ SpookyIt'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.
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