Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great. — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist. — DJ Shadow Album Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me. — DJ Shadow Dance Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a… — DJ Shadow Attitude Copy Share Image
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past. — DJ Shadow Music Copy Share Image
I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm… — DJ Shadow Drama Copy Share Image
My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time. — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
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… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that… — DJ Shadow Community Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of… — DJ Shadow Artist Copy Share Image
In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like… — DJ Shadow Albums Copy Share Image
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… — DJ Shadow Clubs Copy Share Image
When I make music, it takes me two hours to get into the flow. To me it's like tapping into some kind… — DJ Shadow Fear Copy Share Image
So, in addition to being a full-time father of two and everything else in life, it isn't so much that I'm sitting… — DJ Shadow Albums Copy Share Image
Through it all, the words of John Peel echo strongly within me: you have support the music that's being made now. You… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Like a lot of other DJs, I've been wondering when the first DJ game was going to happen. Somebody even pitched me… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
When I'm representing my music live I think of it very much in a rock band sense. When I first started doing… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I feel like you're being coy if you don't do something and celebrate the 20th or 25th anniversary in some way. Just… — DJ Shadow Balance Copy Share Image
I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and… — DJ Shadow Access Copy Share Image
I've said this a lot lately, too: if, 20 or 30 years down the road, when everything's said and done, I was… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Another one of my favourite sayings is, you can't handpick your audience. I feel like I'm making music for people who think… — DJ Shadow Audience Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire,… — DJ Shadow Bad review Copy Share Image
I almost feel like there's some kind of connection that I'm having trouble putting in to words, in the same sense that… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I feel less and less like that every year, and I guess maybe even more so with every new record that I… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site. — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level. — DJ Shadow Corporations Copy Share Image
I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay. — DJ Shadow Actor Copy Share Image
When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun… — DJ Shadow Djs Copy Share Image
Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you,… — DJ Shadow Culture Copy Share Image
I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre. — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by DJ Shadow](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b3f/dj-shadow-9306_albums_in-certain-cases-i-don-t-want-to-sell-tr_1151808.jpg)
