Worldwide #1 hit producer Timbaland (source):
“So, that’s what sampling is. That’s not stealing, ’cause everybody sample from everybody every day.”
“I like it, I don’t have no researchin’- time is coming up when I got to turn a record in.”
“So, I like it. I found it. I got sounds upon sounds upon sound. I don’t know what’s public domain and what’s not.”
…and you wonder why people dislike the music industry. The very industry pushing DRM, pushing prices, dragging consumers to court and and re-defining consumers’ rights of fair use as “stealing”.