DJ /rupture quotes

“I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?”
-- DJ /rupture

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“I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?”
-- DJ /rupture

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“If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“So much of what deejays like myself do is, I'm very interested in - I'm constantly looking for new music, constantly digging, but then also I am thinking about how to present it in a way that kind of makes sense to people who are less - sort of less with their hands in it than I am.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“Music is a conversation between people and their community, you know, people and - and deejaying, it is a way of amplifying that conversation and kind of putting that conversation on blast in a way. But at a very basic level, it's records talking to records.”
-- DJ /rupture

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“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”

“My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.”

“The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.”

“The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.”

“My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.”

“One cannot plan for the unexpected.”

“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

“I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.”

“All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.”