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Top 20 David Toop Quotes (2025 Update)

David Toop Quote: “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!”

1. “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!”

David Toop Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

David Toop Quote: “I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn’t go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.”

3. “I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn’t go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.”

David Toop Quote: “The Musicians Union declared you couldn’t mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you’ve got a studio-based record that you’d worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.”

4. “The Musicians Union declared you couldn’t mime on Top Of The Pops, which is obviously impossible, if you’ve got a studio-based record that you’d worked on for a year or something. And there were a lot of terrible performances. Because on Top Of The Pops, you were just thrown onstage.”

David Toop Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

David Toop Quote: “The longer we live, the more we are obliged to confront the deeper meaning of what it is we do.”

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

David Toop Quote: “New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to.”

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

David Toop Quote: “I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.”

8. “I needed a huge amount of energy to cope with my life. I had a huge amount of energy where stuff was concerned: it was as if all this unconscious material had been unleashed.”

David Toop Quote: “If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it’s a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there’s nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention...”

9. “If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it’s a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there’s nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention...”

David Toop Quote: “Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art.”

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

David Toop Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

David Toop Quote: “Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay.”

12. “Sound: always in a state of emergence or decay.”

David Toop Quote: “Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it’s just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.”

13. “Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it’s just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.”

David Toop Quote: “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?”

14. “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?”

David Toop Quote: “I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was a big, big deal: you’re not going to sit around taking drugs and drinking and waste it, you’ll do something.”

15. “I guess we all had that work ethic. None of us were rock stars, so if you had time in a studio, it was a big, big deal: you’re not going to sit around taking drugs and drinking and waste it, you’ll do something.”

David Toop Quote: “There’s a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they’re alive.”

16. “There’s a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they’re alive.”

David Toop Quote: “One of the things about grief – I wouldn’t generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways – but I had a huge amount of energy.”

17. “One of the things about grief – I wouldn’t generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways – but I had a huge amount of energy.”

David Toop Quote: “I don’t mean I give the same intensity to everything I do – if I did that, I’d be dead, but I’m very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what’s happening in my life.”

18. “I don’t mean I give the same intensity to everything I do – if I did that, I’d be dead, but I’m very conscious, I make notes, and I have a fairly good idea of what’s happening in my life.”

David Toop Quote: “I’d entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these journalists, who were showing up with bootlegs of this record, asking me to talk about it. I was astonished. It kind of gained momentum.”

19. “I’d entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these journalists, who were showing up with bootlegs of this record, asking me to talk about it. I was astonished. It kind of gained momentum.”

David Toop Quote: “Sometimes I’d like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that’s the critic in me talking.”

20. “Sometimes I’d like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that’s the critic in me talking.”

David Toop Quote: “I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.”

21. “I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.”

David Toop Quote: “Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, “I’m the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don’t know anything, I can’t do this.” And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.”

22. “Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, “I’m the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don’t know anything, I can’t do this.” And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.”

David Toop Quote: “One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, “Oh, I’m just reading your book.” And I say, “Which one, for God’s sake, I’ve done six now!” “Oceans of Sound”.”

23. “One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, “Oh, I’m just reading your book.” And I say, “Which one, for God’s sake, I’ve done six now!” “Oceans of Sound”.”

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