"We’re all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed’s ‘Chronicles’ in ‘Henry VI.’ Tchaikovsky’s ‘1812 Overture’ embeds the French national anthem."
- David ShieldsModern American author David Shields is well-known for his essays and nonfiction books that frequently question conventional narrative techniques. In one of his works, Shields explores the creative and artistic concept of using other people's work to produce something original. Consider a painter cr…