Blue: The Color of Noise
Steve Aoki
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The kind of music you listened to could shape the way you dressed, the way you looked out at the world, the way you saw yourself in what came back to you on the bounce. It was a way to plug in to your own subculture.”
“There's no such thing as a bad idea - only an idea that isn't fully formed, fully realized. The great ones find a way of holding on to these little half-formed snippets of art and truth and moment and find a way to slow them in when the time is right, when the thought is finished. Some songs, they're like fine wine, or a bourbon that still needs to age. Sip from that glass too soon, and you won't taste the full effect. Best to let it sit until the right moment - to let it breathe ... until all these moving parts come together in just the right way.”
“The color blue has been shown to activate our parasympathetic nervous system - meaning it sends a signal to our brain that there is no danger present.”
“Remember, you can't engineer genuine. You can only be genuine.”
“Basically, you need to play to your strengths, instead of to the best-case scenarios you have in your head.”
“When you're passionate about something or something, it can bring you to great places. But in the end, passion can only take you so far. It might be enough to get you the gig, but it won't let you keep the gig. For that you need a while bunch of shit to fall your way. You need a team of people around you who believe in you and what you're putting out there. You need experience.”
“When we don't have to think about surviving in the moment, we're free to come up with ideas that move us, that move others, that move humanity forward.”
“There is the truth of what I have been told. There is the truth of what I have lived. There is the truth of what I remember.”
“Sometimes you need to stop the train. You need to step back. Because the work has to come from somewhere deep inside you. It can't be rushed or scheduled - otherwise, you're just going through the motions.”
“Funny the way music finds you when you're a kid. It sneaks up on you. It's in the air, in the mood of the room, all around. And then, when it happens in just the right way, it can get under your skin and hang with you for just about forever.”
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