Quotes by DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow

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.

Different

People

Thinking

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

Albums

Multiple Meanings

Titles

As for my store, most artists’ sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we’re disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, “Why can’t we do this?”

Artist

Party

Stores

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

Albums

Snapshots

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

Bits

Enough

Radar

I couldn’t make a real drum’n’bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

Dubstep

Real

Records

I don’t hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

Don't Hate

Hate

I Hate

I feel less and less like that every year, and I guess maybe even more so with every new record that I put out. I just think, as the years go by, it’s harder and harder to really find a reason to be annoyed that you made something that people want to continuously talk about. Certainly there are contexts in which the record can be discussed which will get me on the defensive and make me want to put some kind of calibration or some kind of context on what the record means in relation to my career as a whole.

Mean

People

Thinking

I feel like you’re being coy if you don’t do something and celebrate the 20th or 25th anniversary in some way. Just as I’ve never, ever had any kind of embargo on playing songs from Endtroducing, no matter how much I wanted people to like my new stuff – I’ve never, ever stopped playing Endtroducing, for that reason as well. It’s a give and take – it’s a balance. If there’s one theme, I guess, to this entire discussion, then it’s that.

Giving

People

Song

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

Impossible

Missions

People

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Alternatives

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Audience

Balance

Bits

Block

Careers

Casts

Consumers

Crowds

Different

Don't Hate

Drama

Dubstep

Enough

Fans

Feels

Flow

Fun

Games

Genre

Giving

Gone

Guitar

Hate

Hero

Honest

I Hate

Ideas

Imitation

Impossible

Innovation

Itunes

Kids

Lasts

Lawyer

Like You

Listening

Littles

Long

Looks

Mainstream

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Mind

Missions

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Quotes by DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow

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

I always consider every album to be a snapshot.

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

I couldn’t make a real drum’n’bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

I don’t hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

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