Funk Quote by Ad-Rock

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music…

— Wale

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the…

— Wale

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.

— Pauline Oliveros

The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.

— Morten Harket

When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I…

— Brian Eno

I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think a lot…

— El-P

A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

— Black Thought

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

— Rob Sheffield

“They’re never technically tapes, but they’re always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.”

— Rob Sheffield

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

— Wendy Williams

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs,…

— M. Ward

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

— Sherman Alexie