My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site. DJ Shadow More Quotes by DJ Shadow More Quotes From DJ Shadow 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. DJ Shadow song giving people The story I always recite - and have had to recite so many times over the years to different lawyers and different people within Universal - is that the business end of Mo'Wax was basically, like, 'Give us the big ones samples first, and we'll see how we get on.' And I gave them the six or seven that were, to me, the ones that were the scariest, and the biggest use. It wasn't about the big names, necessarily - although that played into it a bit, with people like Bjork and Metallica. DJ Shadow lawyer different people 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 all of them; try to clear 20 things, in my mind there's gonna be at least one issue, maybe two - and then that's when it starts getting into either re-recording stuff, or you've got to take that song off. DJ Shadow balance mind song 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 hot numbers years 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 mainstream drama people 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 tears hair people 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 who-i-am believe ideas If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction. DJ Shadow impact views trying 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 guitar hero way 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 self thinking My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time. DJ Shadow looking-forward made trying I always consider every album to be a snapshot. DJ Shadow snapshots albums 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 records movement community I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay. DJ Shadow casts sometimes people 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 littles people thinking 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 vices real hero 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 video games ideas 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 gone littles ideas I'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level. DJ Shadow soapbox corporations levels 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 careers people years
