Thomas Dolby quotes
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“The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.”
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“It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.”
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“So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.”
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“Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.”
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“While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.”
-- Thomas DolbySource : Song: Airhead, Album: Aliens Ate My Buick
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“When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.”
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“She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.”
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“It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.”
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“Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.”
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“I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.”
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“I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.”
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“So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.”
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“From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.”
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“Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... ...the future is roses! Roses!”
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“At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.”
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“The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.”
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“So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.”
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“It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.”
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“I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.”
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“She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.”
-- Thomas DolbySource : Song: She Blinded Me With Science, Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
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