DJ Shadow Quotes

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Only cowards torture women.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

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.

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

There are worse prisons than words.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.