Art Quote by Inspectah Deck

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

— Girl Talk

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

— AraabMuzik

I don't sample. I'm not like one of these guys who concoct some beat on my sampler and just turns it in.

— Scott Storch

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

— Jens Lekman

I really wish I could play the piano really well without having to practice.

— Christopher Miller

I had piano lessons for six months and got nowhere.

— Alex Horne

I think if I wanted to get to a point where I could actually grow in my music, I had to almost step away…

— Big K.R.I.T

The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

— Bonobo

I used to play the piano, I was pretty decent, so that was the only thing I could hold onto in terms of coming…

— Lunice

A lot of my stuff in the past has been very piano-based.

— Benson Boone

I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it…

— No I.D

I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.

— Jeremy Denk