So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.

If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either.

My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

And she is the readerwho browses the shelfand looks for new worldsbut finds herself.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.

Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans.

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.