Lester Holt

The problem with being a journalist is you go places and you're working. You don't get to appreciate everything. But I got enough of a sampler of South Africa; I thought, 'I want to come here when I don't have to interview people for a living so that I can really enjoy it.' Because I think it was just a magnificent place.

American Journalist

Washed Out

The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

American Musician

Ty Segall

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

Bonobo

I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and sampler, getting my drums in charity shop records. It was better than bashing around in someone's basement, trying to compromise ideas.

British Musician

Eberhard Weber

Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.

German Musician

No I.D.

I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.

David Byrne

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

Scottish Musician

Anna Quindlen

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Wayne Static

During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.

Scott Storch

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

American Producer

Refers to a physical example of craftsmanship, usually handmade, showing needlework skills.

Craft Demonstration

Traditionally, samplers often contained alphabets or quotes and were kept as family heirlooms.

Historical Keepsake

Originally, samplers were used by young girls to practice and record their stitching skills.

Learning Tool

A sampler in the context of products serves as a preview, often before making a larger purchase.

Taste Before Buying

Indicates a selection representing diversity from a larger group, often in music or food.

Variety Introduction

Samplers can be a promotional strategy to introduce new items or attract customers.

Marketing Tool

A sampler for scientific use is a tool for systematically collecting data or matter for study.

Scientific Equipment

The type of sampler in science or technology varies greatly depending on what is being sampled.

Context Specific

 and with the help of the local fisherman, we are collecting sediment from the seabed with a custom sediment sampler we've invented and built. We pack the sediment into small bags, we then dispatch them to hundreds of small bags that we send to different universities,

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 its eyes we often encounter the species pain horizontally in the water column with its arms above its head here we are delicately capturing a squid through a section sampler in all da crickets can collect nearly 30 animals