Mashups Quotes

• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

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  Miles Millar

  Technology   Challenges   Asian  

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

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  Austin Kleon

  Facts   Influence   Said  

  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative". Book by Austin Kleon, February 28, 2012.

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• Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

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  Austin Kleon

  Ideas   Mashups   Remix  

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.9, Workman Publishing

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• Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

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  Jaron Lanier

  Media   Culture   Fandoms  

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

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• I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

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  Ian Doescher

  Stars   War   Book  

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• People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.

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  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful   Smart   Thinking  

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• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

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  Austin Kleon

  Facts   Mashups   You Choose  

  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative". Book by Austin Kleon, 2012.

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• I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.

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  Kaskade

  Crazy   Moving   Night  

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• I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.

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  Girl Talk

  Song   People   Trying  

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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