Sample Quotes · Page 5

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

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

Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a…

— Lauren Mayberry

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

— Girl Talk

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You…

— Mikko Hypponen

[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at…

— Rob Lowe

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are…

— George Gaylord Simpson

As far as the mechanics of how the music was made, there's no denying: Endtroducing was extremely simple. That's not to denigrate…

— DJ Shadow

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

— Doseone

I strive to create drum samples that have a variety of engineering and capturing options in order to build a unique drum…

— Joey Sturgis

Since I shoot, record audio and edit, I was able to begin the filming without hiring a crew and create a sample…

— Chris Hegedus

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

— Ellen Hopkins

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

— Margaret Cho

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

— Girl Talk

I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower.…

— Isabelle Fuhrman

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about.…

— Vanilla Ice

Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

— Bobby Bragan

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

A small sample of the oxygen molecules from any breath that anybody took within the past few thousand years is near certain…

— David Bodanis

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the…

— Justin Broadrick

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

— Prodigy

I Preserve the nonviable embryo in formaldehyde for future study. Lord Maccon has been drinking my samples. When confronted, he admitted to…

— Gail Carriger

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

— Shelley Berman

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that…

— Linda M. Godwin

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