Quotes by Thomas Dolby - Page 1

I've been out on the periphery.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Periphery
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Etch out the future on your own design.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Inspirational
Design
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The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Dream
Men
Mad
Slowly
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It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Ability
Abuse
Swings
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She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Education
Blinded
Geometry
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It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Romantic
Eye
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Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Hot
Sauce
Sex
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I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Coldness
Desperate
Desperation
People
Taboo
Accuse
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While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Quality
Giants
Intellectual
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The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Bigger
Boys
Games
Music Industry
Teenage
Music Music Industry Industry
Directed
Mainly
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Art
Media
Stars
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Art
Guitar
Years
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Technology
Computer
Killers
Long
Time Music Long
App
Evidently
Tech
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Equipment
Firsts
Mean
Live Shows
Seemed
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Hiatus
Long
Names
Years
Intended
Toured
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Ocean
Character
Ice
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Computers
Technology
Accelerate
Audio
Pushing
Sensible
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Use
Valleys
Companies
Seemed
Technology Companies
Valley
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Expression
Records
Video
Directed
Experiment
Music Videos
Pleased
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Groove
Guitar
Records
Song
Cycle
Drum
Launch
Motion
Pattern
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Dream
Running
Helmet
Reality
Somewhere Else
Virtual Reality
Somewhere
Cottage
Virtual
Your Dream
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Technology
Batteries
Moved
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Two
Years
Ended
Formed
Refresh
Tech
Valley
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The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Computer
Enormous
Hardware
Studios
Cable
Designers
Manufacturers
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Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Big Screen
Display
Military
Designed
Projected
Screen
Tracks
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Experience
Audio
Composer
Reality
Sound
Virtual Reality
Anywhere
Time Experience Moment
Attached
Improved
Moment
Near
Noticed
Same Time
Though
Virtual
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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.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Quality
Technology
Audio
Digital
No Reason
Ongoing
Point Of View
Views
Boom
Existing
Graphics
Seemed
Whereas
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The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now.
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Entertainers
Philosophical
Technicians
Concept
Designed
Envelope
Experiences
Grab
Push
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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!
Thomas Dolby / Musician
Dream
Future
Heart
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