Girl Talk Quotes

I can't wait to wake up in the morning and listen to music in order to try to find something to work with.

A lot of people aren't aware of the years and years of humiliation and horrible shows I've played.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

I'm interested in anyone cutting up music and doing remixes. I just don't think it would work in a live setting right now to do shows with a traditional DJ, but it's something that might happen eventually.

I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.

You can feel a little vulnerable when you see people tearing you apart on the internet or saying, "It's the end of music." "This guy is a total hack." I've read it all. But at the same time, even though I feel a little vulnerable with that, I do feel comfortable.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

I can't edit live as meticulously as I can for an album.

When I was 18, I was playing to 18 to 21-year-olds, and then, when I was 25, still playing to 18 to 25-year-olds. As I've gone on, the crowd has gone in both directions, both younger and a little older now than it's ever been. It is an interesting thing to hit 30.

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.

I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect.

Me and my friends would drive for eight hours to play for twenty people. That was cool, and if a couple of people bought t-shirts, that would be the greatest thing. We could go eat some hamburgers that night.

When there's something negative in my life, be it in the art or the music world or in my personal life, I really just want to face it as immediately as possible. I don't run from it. I just want to immerse myself in it, get through it as quickly as possible, understand it, and look into what is positive about it.

I'm interested in branching out and seeing where my music goes.

I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors.

It's hard to play a laptop in the midst of band and have people want to buy your t-shirts and CD's.

To get 300 songs to fit together on an album, it's not like I choose 300 songs and say these are the ones I wanted to pick. To get those 300 songs I sampled 1000's of songs and narrowed down the ones I felt worked the best musically.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.

I want to make something that's fun to listen to but still challenging and unique.

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

My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.

As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

I love getting out there and traveling and doing shows and all of that. But when I can be home, it's a special time.

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

I feel like there's always something to prove.

In 1990 if you heard a song on the radio and you really wanted to hear it again you'd have to buy it on tape or CD. Hearing music doesn't hold that kind of value anymore because anyone can hear it. It's going to become even easier.

I think collaborating with a DJ could be interesting musically and it's something that I'd like to get into down the road, but I think on the live show tip I'm sticking to my guns for right now.

Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

I do have some weeks coming up in the summer where I will actually be in my house, and I love working on new music and all of that.

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

I do try to pick music that is from different worlds and typically doesn't flow together. When you do that, you get songs with conflicting messages, but for me, it's on a musical level first and foremost.

KRS-One is one of my favorite rappers ever. I actually don't even know why I have this on my computer, but I do. I really like this album, Criminal Minded.

In the past, hearing music had more value.

I've been approached about doing some live performance collaborations with DJ's. That is something I'd be interested in getting into down the line, but I've worked very hard to distinguish myself as a laptop artist.

I listen to music constantly, and I'm always hearing things I love that I'm excited to use.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same time manipulate it and take it to a new world.

The whole point of doing the pay what you want is to be reasonable with the fans.

I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

The traditional DJ world isn't a world that I come from.

My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales.