Sample Quotes

Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

— Ilona Andrews

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

— Jaron Lanier

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sample clearances and roll-out plans is what separates mix-tapes & albums.

— Big K.R.I.T

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

— Azzedine Alaia

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

— Adam Ant

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

— Donald Miller

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

— Prodigy

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

— Rahki

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past…

— Diane Ackerman

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

— Bill Dixon

If I didn't have to fit in to sample sizes I'd be a size 14, easy. I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

— Daisy Lowe

All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn…

— Louis Tomlinson

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

— Doseone

The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher…

— Owsley Stanley

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

— Girl Talk

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really…

— Martin Gore

“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so…

— Stephen Wolfram

When you shop online, wouldn't you like to sample the bouquet of wines, the aroma of cigars, or the subtle fragrance of…

— Charles Platt

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you…

— Harry Vardon

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost…

— Shelley Berman

I have a fairly strict definition of early infantile autism. That is not to say that people who don't meet that classic…

— Darold Treffert

I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass…

— Signe Baumane

People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic…

— Tim Hecker

Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down…

— Penn Jillette

What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've…

— Paul Davies

Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant…

— Richard Dixon Oldham

The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In…

— Gerhard Richter

You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while…

— Jean Sasson

A whole big, giant world full of men. Men with blue eyes. Brown eyes. Green eyes. And indescribable shades in between. Tall…

— Ellen Hopkins

There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples…

— Missy Mazzoli

I feel like this song [Yello, "Oh Yeah"] was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio. There was probably…

— Margaret Cho

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

— Janice Dickinson

I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.

— Felipe Esparza

Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!

— Rick Riordan

It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.

— Girl Talk

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

— Mayer Hawthorne

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

— Alan Parsons

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

— Klaus Schulze

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

— Deepak Chopra