"I had ideas about music and sound and listening and time and so on that I wanted to pursue as an individual, and by doing that book, Brian [Eno] opened the door, and he decided to do a record based loosely on the book."

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Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

David Toop

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Doors Quotes

“The most memorably photos are layered, in good light, and have something really ineresting going on in them. If you can get all three elements into a single frame, now you're talking.”
“I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.”
“I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.”
“... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”
“I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.”
“The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.”
“I am enduring. You can disagree with me.”
“If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.”

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