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Thomas Dolby, born on October 14, 1958, is a British musician, composer, and singer known for his unique electronic music style and sense of humor. He is best known for his hit song 'She Blinded Me with Science'.

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“She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.”

Education Geometry Blinded

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“If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.”

Ifs Years Art Wanted Computer Guitar Electric Subversive Electric Guitar Personal Computers

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“It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.”

Ability Abuse Swings

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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.”

World Character Novel Ocean Studios Ice Floats Caps Ark Recording Studio

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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.”

Use Company Technology Computer Pushing Valleys Sensible Silicon Silicon Valley Accelerate Audio Pushing On

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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.”

Reason Views Quality Technology Happened Point Of View Reason Why Digital No Reason Ongoing High Quality Audio

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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!”

Needs Mind Wells Heart Dream Body Enemy Alive Fans Design Future Rose Flames Meant To Be Were Meant To Be Tailored

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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.”

Feels Kind Moments Reality Sound Composer Engineers Virtual Reality Audio

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“The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.”

Men Dream He Man Mad

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“The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.”

Games Boys Industry Bigger Teenage Music Industry

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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.”

Long Technology Industry Internet Computer Messages Long Time Killers Apps

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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.”

Years Wells Two Company Technology One Thing Involved Moved Supposed To Be Valleys Batteries Silicon Silicon Valley

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“I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.”

People Desperate Desperation Taboo Coldness

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“I've been out on the periphery.”

Periphery

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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.”

Dream Reality Running Company Industry Your Dreams Somewhere Else Virtual Reality Helmet Cottages

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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.”

Happens My Own Records Expression Areas Starting Experiments Video

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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.”

Years Long Names My Own 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.”

Song Lines Records Lays Guitar Patterns Pops Cycles Bass Keyboards Groove 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.”

Knows Firsts Wells Mean Shows Late Equipment

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“While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.”

Quality Intellectual Legs Giants Length Impressed

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“Etch out the future on your own design.”

Inspirational Design

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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.”

Art Bigs Stars Media Models Entertainment Magazines Contracts

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“It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.”

Eye Romantic

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“Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.”

Sex Hot Smoke Sauce Thighs Hot Sauce

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About the Author

Born: October 14, 1958
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 24

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