Quotes About Sampling Music

#1. Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

Ann Powers

#2. I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.

Herbert

#3. Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

Bailee Madison

#4. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't. It took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Bill Gates

#5. Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

Eli Roth

#6. I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Jessica Hagedorn

#7. Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Marianne Williamson

#8. As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

Gus Van Sant

#9. I wanna hear you say my name when you come. Just so you know who made you feel like this. - Mitch Knox

Kindle Alexander

#10. The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.

Girl Talk

#11. You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

Lee Trevino

#12. I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Mark Bradford

#13. Travelling with work. I went to Iceland with GMTV last year and I went to Lapland twice with Classic Gold. I also went to America with Keith Chegwin, which must have been a nightmare for the crew, as we're both hyperactive.

Tony Blackburn

#14. A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

Jaron Lanier

#15. You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Warren Zevon

#16. But he had been the victim of the world's most common crime - his youth had been kidnapped by a thing called time. It had likely also been raped, dismembered, and buried somewhere never to be seen again

Aurelio Voltaire

#17. You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Bella Thorne

#18. Happiness is creating special memories around the table

Margo Vader

#19. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Marc Jacobs

#20. I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global.

DJ Spooky

#21. Neil wanted to tell them death was no reason to hold back, but he found their humanity interesting.

Nora Sakavic