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
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
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 Copy Share Image
My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people. — DJ Shadow 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 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
The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box… — 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'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 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 Copy Share Image
As far as the mechanics of how the music was made, there's no denying: Endtroducing was extremely simple. That's not to denigrate… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
It's about respecting what I think people like about the original music. I'm not gonna ever take it to the extent that… — 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 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 tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me. — DJ Shadow 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 Copy Share Image
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
When I play that music live nowadays, there's a lot of things I feel I'd like to do - even things I… — DJ Shadow 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 have to… — 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 on their… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I was asked to do TV ads for Macintosh. Nowadays, I think anybody would jump at that but, at the time, it didn't feel… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's this balance: if you try to clear 10 things you'll probably get lucky and be able to clear most of them, or… — DJ Shadow 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 of subconscious… — 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 community? — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
I think a band - even a band that's been around as long as the Rolling Stones - I think that's still the formula.… — DJ Shadow 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
I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these artists are… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra. — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
The story I always recite - and have had to recite so many times over the years to different lawyers and different people within… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
