DJ Shadow Quotes
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.
I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.
For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.
When I'm looking for DJ sets and stuff to drop, I look for music that I feel is gonna get the reaction I want from the crowd.
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.
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
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, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.
Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.
I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.
