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My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.
DJ Shadow
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DJ Shadow
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 29
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Hayward
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Joshua Paul Davis
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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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Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, Is that really what people think I sound like?
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As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, Why can't we do this?
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I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay.
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My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.
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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.
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I've tried to tell people that the reason I don't really get excited over good press is that I don't want to get agitated over bad press. I don't wanna get too high on good press, too low on bad press. It's just not a healthy way to engage with my own feelings about my music.
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I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these artists are like. Greed is one of those components of human nature that's inherent in everyone, and sometimes it is an unpleasant thing to engage in.
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