Girl Talk Quotes

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

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

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

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.

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.

A lot of times when I say I didn't do anything I was actually in Miami doing a show.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

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

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

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

I think we're approaching an era where there's a consistent dialogue going on between artists and consumers. And I think that's going to be part of the solution to actually selling music.

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.

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.

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

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like that.

When you're playing for 30 people and you're jumping around stage, screaming, getting in peoples faces and acting cocky you're kind of poking fun at yourself.

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 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.

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

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

I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out.

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.

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

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

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

I want the material I make to be mine; that's always the goal of the record and of the show.

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

I am ultimately comfortable with what I'm sampling.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

I feel like there's always something to prove.

People can judge me on whatever level they think but I've always tried to make my own songs.

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

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.

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think there's always room to grow.

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

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.