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Creativity Quote by Miroslav Vitous

"I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples"

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There is a particular swagger in the doubled-up "extensive, extensive" that feels less like bragging than like a musician insisting the labor be recognized. Miroslav Vitous isn’t selling a vibe here; he’s staking a claim in a very specific era when "samples" were becoming a new kind of currency and the people who created them were often flattened into a line item on a sound card. By foregrounding the process - recording, curating, packaging it as a "classical CD-ROM set" - he’s reminding you that the supposedly frictionless digital future was built on painstaking, analog-grade craft.

The phrase "still on the market" does quiet work. It’s a nod to longevity, but also to the weird afterlife of tools: musicians don’t just make art, they make infrastructure other artists depend on. Vitous positions himself as an early architect of the sample-library boom, before the space was crowded with competitors and marketing gloss. That "ten years" matters: in tech time, it’s an eternity; in music, it’s enough to become a default standard.

Calling it "cream of the crop" is blunt, almost unpoetic, and that’s the point. He’s speaking from inside a professional ecosystem where credibility is measured by results: how it sounds, how often it gets used, whether it holds up. Underneath is a small protest against disposability - the insistence that quality, once documented properly, can outlast trends.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Vitous, Miroslav. (2026, January 16). I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-did-extensive-extensive-recordings-and-made-a-85315/

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Vitous, Miroslav. "I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-did-extensive-extensive-recordings-and-made-a-85315/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-did-extensive-extensive-recordings-and-made-a-85315/. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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Miroslav Vitous (born December 6, 1947) is a Musician from Czech Republic.

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