Playlist Creation Quotes

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my favourite things is to just sit at my computer and make playlists of pretty much anything.

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

I create a playlist for each and every character that I play.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

A DJ is nice and secure to have where there's a set playlist that you can kind of create yourself and then you know for sure what you're going to get.

Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new writing projects. In a strange way, choosing certain songs is part of the process of plotting the book out. I pick songs that I think with resonate with characters, their personality quirks, relationship dynamics, action scenes, and so on.

My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

All my characters have playlists.

I will say this: I've always sort of had maybe an inflated sense of my ability to sequence songs in a narrative flow.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

I have a playlist for every project that I do. I made one for 'Handmaid' before I got the job.

I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes.

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

I love music. I think music is a big inspiration; I listen to it a lot when I'm writing. I really love cinematic music. A lot of the time, I make playlists for my characters when I act. I also make playlists for the scripts that I write.

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

I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

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