DJ Shadow Quotes
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
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I think one of the things about ageing is the jagged peaks become a little bit mellower...? Heheh. And I feel like I'm able to understand a little bit better where that sort of tack comes from.
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.
If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?
I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay.
Everything right now tends to be the same and very aggressive, and I think people are getting a little burned out on it.
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.
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.
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.
Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.
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.
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.
Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.
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.
My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.
Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot
He licked her shoulder and pulled her closer, into the shelter of his body. “No worries, nysr. I’ll watch over you while you sleep. And I’m not going anywhere. Not ever.
With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.
Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.
You stay on me like my godsdamned shadow, vampire."Mirceo's lips curved. "Eternally, demon.
You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.
You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.
Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not, - Rumi
An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon
I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page
The texture of her skin was phantom silk, not human., not blood-warm, but dizzyingly hot anyway.
You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.
