"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."

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

Jessica Hagedorn

#Believe Quotes #Sound Quotes #Sampling Quotes

“I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.”
“Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.”
“Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.”

Source : Source: 215mag.com
“Necessity makes an honest man a knave.”

Source : 'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2
“The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages.”
“I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.”
“Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass.”

Source : Song: The Only Child, Album: The Pretender
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”

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