DJ Shadow Quotes - Page 2

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• I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

  DJ Shadow

  Ibiza, Style, Trendy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do with them having a glorious IPO and then retiring to the Bahamas somewhere. It's important to keep that in mind.

  DJ Shadow

  Mind, Important, Bahamas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Trying, Lasts

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• Another one of my favourite sayings is, you can't handpick your audience. I feel like I'm making music for people who think like me about music, and that takes a lot of different forms. I could never generalise - but I think if I were to generalise, I'd think that you would say that most of my fans are music lovers who are looking for something outside of the mainstream: maybe a little bit hard to pin down, a little bit hard to categorise.

  DJ Shadow

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

  DJ Shadow

  Simple, Track, Albums

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I have a natural fear of anything that feels like celebrating my own past to an extent that doesn't allow me to continue to look forward. I don't know psychologically why it is, but I get a little uncomfortable with nostalgia.

  DJ Shadow

  Past, Nostalgia, Natural

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I think I would be much more enthusiastic about a band that covered more than just one particular album of mine. I don't ever really intend to record or to do shows with a live band. I don't really have a problem with it, but it doesn't really affect me either way.

  DJ Shadow

  Thinking, Problem, Enthusiastic

  Source: thequietus.com

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• To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

  DJ Shadow

  Artist, Albums, Honest

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

  DJ Shadow

  Titles, Albums, Multiple Meanings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than 50 people who have no idea who I am or what I'm for.

  DJ Shadow

  Believe, Who I Am, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I think a band - even a band that's been around as long as the Rolling Stones - I think that's still the formula. You know you're gonna get those songs, and you don't mind sitting through the ones that you maybe don't know very well because you know they're not gonna let you down - they're not gonna mess with you. And I kind of feel the same way about the way I structure my shows.

  DJ Shadow

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.

  DJ Shadow

  Hair, People, Tears

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit.

  DJ Shadow

  Rap, Swimming, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

  DJ Shadow

  People, Listening, Fans

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

  DJ Shadow

  Drama, People, Mainstream

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Hero, Vices

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first played DJ Hero, I wasn't very good. The control surface is similar in some ways to a turntable, but in other ways not at all the same.

  DJ Shadow

  Hero, Guitar, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Like a lot of other DJs, I've been wondering when the first DJ game was going to happen. Somebody even pitched me on their own idea and I thought, "I'm not a video game startup; I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this."

  DJ Shadow

  Games, Ideas, Video

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.

  DJ Shadow

  Ideas, Gone, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

  DJ Shadow

  Problem, Site, Itunes

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I saw. I wanted to start my own store so people would know that what they were buying was real. There were bootlegs around at the time that had my name on the cover, but the music had nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to compare myself to [Jimmie] Hendrix, but back in the '70s, there were some Hendrix bootlegs.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Names, People

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Numbers, Hot

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everything right now tends to be the same and very aggressive, and I think people are getting a little burned out on it.

  DJ Shadow

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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