Sample Quotes - Page 9

• I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  AraabMuzik

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

  Alan Parsons

  Guy, Trying, Sound

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• A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain to be in the next breath you take.

  David Bodanis

  Past, Oxygen, Years

  David Bodanis (1988). “The secret house: 24 hours in the strange and unexpected world in which we spend our nights and days”, Touchstone Books

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• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  Len Wein

  Art, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’

  Nate Berkus

  Mom, Baseball, Mother

  "Nate Berkus Talks Being Gay, Coming Out And Loss Of Longtime Partner With Joy Behar". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.

  Rahki

  People, Reason

  The Liberator Magazine Interview (Volume 10.1, No. 25), www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• There's always a pattern in order to make a thing, but the starting point must be something I've never seen before. It's not two-dimensional, but it's like a sample. I work with patterns like a sculptor. I try to get [the team] not to work on a body, [but] to work on a free space, on a table. The work is basically on flat surfaces.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Team, Two, Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

  Aphex Twin

  Air, Interesting, Hitting

  "A Conversation With Aphex Twin". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com.

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• I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history.

  Deborah Smith

  Country, Book, Korea

  Source: thequietus.com

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• This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.

  Deborah Smith

  Mother, Daughter, Differences

  Source: thequietus.com

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• With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.

  Anna Meredith

  Age, Texture, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic information out of a sample and then put that back in and then score it for five instruments. You don't need digital audio to sample; you can rewrite things.

  Tim Hecker

  Technology, People, Problem

  Source: therumpus.net

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