Creativity Quote by Eric San

There is a quiet provocation in Eric San framing his work as "little stories" and then flattening the hierarchy between pencil and "bits of records". He is insisting that authorship survives the tool change. In a culture that still treats sampling like a legal loophole or a moral stain, San reframes it as narrative craft: selection, sequencing, character, mood, payoff. The move is disarmingly simple, which is why it lands. If collage is just another kind of drawing, then the old purist line about "real" musicianship starts to look like nostalgia dressed up as ethics.

The phrase "try and make" matters too. It signals humility and process, not genius mythology. These are "little" stories - modest in scope, attentive to texture, closer to vignettes than epics. That’s a musician talking like a filmmaker or comic artist: less about virtuoso display, more about pacing and perspective. It also hints at the listener’s role. Stories need an audience to complete them; sampled fragments invite you to recognize, misrecognize, and stitch meaning in real time.

Contextually, San comes out of a lineage where turntables and samplers were treated as instruments before institutions agreed. By equating graphite with vinyl shards, he’s arguing that modern creativity is editorial: the art is in the cut, the juxtaposition, the decision to place one found sound beside another until it becomes a scene.