“So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.” KnowsWayWellsKindIdeasWalksCitiesWalkingLandscapeUrbanRepetitionUncannyDisorientationUrban Landscape Author:DJ Spooky
“The ability to connect and communicate is one of the most powerful, and you cannot find anyone who has been truly successful in life that doesn't have that ability because you've got to motivate, and you've got to -frankly, you have to influence.” Has BeensAbilityPowerfulSuccessfulInfluenceCommunicateMost Powerful Author:Frank Luntz
“The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.” PeopleDoneJobsSuccessfulBillsGatesSuccessful PeopleAgain And AgainAmerican LifeHorrificBuffetsWarren Buffet Author:Frank Luntz
“First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing” KnowsFirstsLongNamesFunTermCollegePlanningLong TermSpookyFun Things Author:DJ Spooky
“When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of yourself as inhabiting a certain cultural space in the kind of a cultural landscape, so when I say cultural space what I mean to imply there is that you exist within certain parameters of how people think of culture.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanIdeasCertainCultureNamesDifferencesSpaceStageMusicianLandscapeThink Of YouParameters Author:DJ Spooky
“Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.” KindDifferentArtistDifferent Kinds Author:Joelle Carter
“Bill Clinton was effective because he had that personal relationship, that this was a guy who had tremendous curiosity, which is another one of the key attributes. And he had the ability - his mind was - his mind and his heart were very well-connected. And so he genuinely empathized.” MindWellsHeartGuyAbilityKeysBillsClintonCuriosityConnectedAttributesPersonal Relationships Author:Frank Luntz
“Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn't fit it into anything and that was the point.” KnowsCertainStyleNew YorkDowntown Author:DJ Spooky
“DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.” KindCultureStyleCriticismGenreMeant To BeBe KindIronicCritiqueAmbiguousDjsDowntownSpookyWere Meant To Be Author:DJ Spooky
“It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.” ThinkingWayHas BeensDifferentRealDifferencesRecordsNormalWindowOppositesAlbumsStoresReal LifeDifferent WaysThrownCategoriesIpodsJust SayingRecord StoresPlaylists Author:DJ Spooky