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If I were a 13-year-old and I ...

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.

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At the same time, one of the t...

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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Switch off the mind and let th...

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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So a more sensible thing it se...

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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The games industry is already ...

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

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The man who never dreams, goes...

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

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When the polar ice caps melt, ...

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 blinded me with science an...

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

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Well, you know, I mean, I firs...

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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Then I have a head mounted dis...

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.

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The other thing I felt was tha...

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.

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The man who never dreams, goes...

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

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The hardware manufacturers, ga...

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.

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The games industry is already ...

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

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So I'll set a cycle in motion ...

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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So evidently music was a kille...

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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So a more sensible thing it se...

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 29 quotes

It's been over 15 years since ...

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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It was supposed to be a year o...

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've been out on the periphery...

I've been out on the periphery.

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