Sampling Quotes

• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  Macklemore

  Technology, Texture, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  Chris Ofili

  Hip Hop, Enemy, Listening

  "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

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• Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.

  DJ Spooky

  Long, Association, Way

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• Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

  Rob Lowe

  Way, Census, Statistician

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• I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

  Rakim

  Littles, Wanted

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

  Gotye

  Thinking, Discovery, Brain

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• The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

  DJ Spooky

  Simple, Eras, Paradoxical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Ideas, Stories

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the things that's really the cornerstone of '90s hip-hop is sampling.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Hip Hop, Hips, Hops

  Source: deadline.com

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• My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

  Questlove

  Party, Law, Goal

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.

  Rick James

  Rapper, Artist, Dollars

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 27, 2012

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• 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

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Determination, Jobs, Would Be

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• It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fun, Ideas, Dying

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Believe, Sound, Homework

  "Cultivating The Art Of the Melange". Interview with Somini Sengupta, www.nytimes.com. December 4, 1996.

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• I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

  Girl Talk

  Comfortable

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Whether it's being repealing or replacing Obamacare, rolling back excessive regulations, making the kind of investments that'll support infrastructure, or reducing taxes and reforming business taxes across the country. That's just a sampling of the things that we're working on right now.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Obamacare, Support

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• My comfort zone musically, I wouldn't necessarily say I have one now. But, when I did have one, I can definitely identify that it was sampling. I had to identify it honestly as sampling because I started to become dependent on using samples in order to make a track rather than being dependent on myself to make the track because I maybe didn't trust myself enough then.

  Jlin

  Order, Track, Comfort

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

  DJ Spooky

  Memories, Sound, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

  DJ Spooky

  Technique, Sound, Culture

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• Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive.

  Grace Gealey

  Spiritual, Song, Ocean

  "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

  Darrell Huff

  Mean, Cost, Use

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.

  Rahki

  Real, Knowing Nothing, Ideas

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

  Gold Panda

  Moving, Hip Hop, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

  King Krule

  Nice, Writing, Tone

  Source: pitchfork.com

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