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My main thing is constantly looking forward and trying to make music that I couldn't have made at any other time.
DJ Shadow
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DJ Shadow
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 29
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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'm not going to get on any anti-corporation soapbox to an extreme level.
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It's about respecting what I think people like about the original music. I'm not gonna ever take it to the extent that I'm kinda George Lucas-ing moments of the album over and over again, trying to get them right over the next 30 years - I don't wanna do anything like that. But, yeah - it's a... fascinating conundrum through the years.
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