24 Quotes by David Toop

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

If I’d thought, “I can’t really play this instrument,” I wouldn’t have done it! But I didn’t care, you know. I didn’t care!

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I’m caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

People don’t have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.

The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.

I’d been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more like my private thoughts that I never thought I would be able to articulate – I never thought I would be able to express publicly.

I was at a time of my life of making choices, I suppose: am I a writer, am I a visual artist? And when I was a teenager. I thought I would be a film-maker. Am I a musician? If so, what kind of musician am I?

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.