"To Me, Making a [Mix-]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 ... and then you've got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, ... 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."

 - Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (Victoria Gollancz Ltd., 1995)