Quotes About Mixtapes

#1. I think mixtapes have been really important for keeping my buzz strong.

JD Era

#2. Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

ASAP Ferg

#3. I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

Danny Brown

#4. Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

Theophilus London

#5. I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

Big Sean

#6. If I could never put out an album in my life, I could just put out mixtapes. The music got to be out there somehow.

Richard Hilfiger

#7. I think right now a lot of albums that are out there, they sound like mixtapes.

Tyrese Gibson

#8. Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.

Joe Budden

#9. I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

Shy Glizzy

#10. I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Imelda May

#11. I was down on the floor in a pile of DVDs and mixtapes, faced with 135 pounds (or was it 145?) of angry mom. She pressed hard on my chest with her foot,

G.L. Tomas

#12. Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Nayvadius Cash

#13. Even though I'm out there as an artist, I continue droppin' mixtapes, I continue doin' this and continue showin' DJs love personally. That's why I continue doin' a lot of things other artists don't do.

Ace Hood

#14. People really don't know the extent of what I actually do. I'm not one of those rappers ... "Hey! Make a hit. Throw it on an album! Sit at home and make more music." I put 4 or 5 mixtapes out and do shows all year long.

Gorilla Zoe

#15. I have done whole projects with Scoop Deville, I like to basically work with a single producer. I always just worked on a bunch of songs, and then put them together, whether it was an EP or another project. None of them were mixtapes where I was rapping over other peoples beats.

Young De

#16. The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

Yelawolf

#17. Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

Big Sean

#18. The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

Milan Kundera

#19. Girls have white wings. The wings with which to protect their loved ones. I'm going to embrace you with those wings.

Kaori Yuki

#20. A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Vincent Piazza

#21. "Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.

Jhene Aiko

#22. According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Mark Tobey

#23. I was doing stuff that for me was sort of more about playing real music.

Daniel Powter

#24. There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

Gerald Petievich

#25. The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

Frank Luntz

#26. With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.

Yo Gotti

#27. I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

Talib Kweli

#28. Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but it wasn't going to really be a mixtape, it was just going to be songs that I wrote and release for free.

Jhene Aiko

#29. I can't believe I agreed to this shit. One minute I feel like some lovesick fool; then I remember that kiss, the way you ran to me at the airport, and I can barely breathe.

Joey W. Hill

#30. The act of communicating with one another is the beginning of friendship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women)

Laurie R. King

#32. Falling in love is totally unimaginable to me. I think maybe the best things often are.

Katie Heaney