"I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind."

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DJ Spooky

#Thinking Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.”
“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.”
“Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.”
“In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.”
“I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.”
“When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.”
“Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.”
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”

Source : Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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