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

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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.

multiple-meanings titles albums

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.

block offering kids

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane. by DJ Shadow

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

insane stuff thinking

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an albu... by DJ Shadow

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

honest albums artist

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or D... by DJ Shadow

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

sparks eight years

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.

swimming rap artist

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

fans listening people

The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

stars attitude war

I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

artist age trying

I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music to commercials and sell out for all intents and purposes. It doesn't really matter.'

community purpose matter

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.

missions impossible people

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 appropriate for what I was trying to stand for.

tvs trying thinking

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.

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