D. James
D. James
people following-rules west
You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you can do. But for me it's easy because I don't work like that. I work intuitively.
years track done
I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.
world missions composer
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
things-change
You change all the time. Everything changes you.
bit food mixed mixer played threw together
I just mixed some sandpaper together for a bit and then played a food mixer and threw it at someone.
bits equipment favorite four happy infinite quite
I could be quite happy working with, like, about four bits of my favorite equipment forever, 'cause it's got infinite possibilities.
alzheimers tragedy disease
The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.
writing bad-writing discrimination
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
kindness may firsts
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
couple unhappy proud
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
people secret today
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
years literature care
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
men cities violence
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
men self world
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.