Quotes by David Toop

David Toop

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments.

Good Friend

Numbers

Real

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

Art

Criticism

Killing

David’s [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort of undermined what he’d done. Other people who kind of took life more cheaply, would have really gone for it. David almost did everything he could to scupper the whole thing, which I very much admire, but of course it was deeply irritating then, because we wanted to make a bit of money! So we made this very catchy tune and then he added a bunch of weird stuff which was all very strange.

Character

Integrity

Interesting

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time…turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

Echoes

Ocean

Order

Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, “I’m the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don’t know anything, I can’t do this.” And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.

Book

Thinking

Writing

I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.

Dip

Rubbish

Thinking

I don’t mean I give the same intensity to everything I do – if I did that, I’d be dead, but I’m very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what’s happening in my life.

Giving

Ideas

Mean

I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was a big, big deal: you’re not going to sit around taking drugs and drinking and waste it, you’ll do something.

Drinking

Rocks

Stars

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.

Book

Doors

Ideas

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

Anthology

Ideas

Instruments

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African American

Anthology

Art

Artist

Believe

Bob

Book

Care

Character

Children

Choices

Couple

Criticism

Daughter

Decay

Deeper

Deeper Meaning

Demand

Dip

Distance

Done

Doors

Drinking

Echoes

Effort

Energy

Eye

Feels Just

Free Will

Games

Giving

Good Friend

Grief

Grieving

Ideas

Important

Instruments

Integrity

Interesting

Japan

Killing

Knowing

Listening

Long

Mean

Men

Moving

Musician

Needed

New Ideas

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Quotes by David Toop

David Toop

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

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time…turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, “I’m the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don’t know anything, I can’t do this.” And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.

I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.

I don’t mean I give the same intensity to everything I do – if I did that, I’d be dead, but I’m very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what’s happening in my life.

I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was a big, big deal: you’re not going to sit around taking drugs and drinking and waste it, you’ll do something.

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.

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

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