."the most widely practiced American art form: the personal mix tape of favorite songs that serves as self-portrait, gesture of friendship, prescription for an ideal party, or simply as an environment consisting solely of what is most ardently loved."
- GEOFFREY O'BRIEN
."To me, making a tape is like writing a letter there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind," but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules."
- ROB GORDON (IN NICK HORNBYS HIGH FIDELITY)
."When all words fail she speaks / her mix tape's a masterpiece."
- BEN FOLDS FIVE
."I feel like a winner when I make a mix tape because I get ill when I'm on the pause button / and I get my fill and you can't say nothing."
- BEASTIE BOYS
."Genius to fall asleep to your tape last night."
- BJORK
."I put a mix tape together of all my favorite songs...This is song number three...I love putting mix tapes together, you know...if you buy an album of a tape or something, those guys put songs in their order and they try and say how you should listen to the songs, but I don't like that. I don't like to be told what to listen to, when to listen to or anything..."
- RAHAD JACKSON (IN PAUL THOMAS ANDERSONS BOOGIE NIGHTS)
."If you want a better life, you need better music. Here's a start."
- EARL
.I Don't Make My Jukebox Selections For The Recognition
- T. Eric Mayhew (the ONION)
Ω is the inner essence of all Mixtape.
- ME
."The common element of all these selections is that they promote a sense of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and ground support personnel."
- NASA
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