Best Remix Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To kids coming of age in a world of technology and unhinged capitalism, our music seems to sound the way global capital is — liquid, international, porous, and sped up.”

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Book:Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

Source: Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

“Words don't get lost in translation, they get remixed. Just watch what happens to this quote.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“You've got this, chief conductor of the brainwaves! Tune those thoughts like a radio station, and if the ego starts acting up, just hit "skip" like a sassy DJ. We're spinning a mixtape of wit and wisdom, dropping beats of self-control like a pro! So, let's jam to the rhythm of our own greatness and show the world how we remix life in style!”

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Author:lifeispositive.com

“I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.”

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Author:Ann Wilson

“In one of my songs, in the song on the "Why?" remix that I did with Jadakiss in 2004, I said, "Why is Bush actin' like they tryin' to get Osama? Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama?" This is in 2004 on the "Why?" remix and I said that because I really had belief that Obama was the right person to be president”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.”

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Author:Meek Mill

“I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.”

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Author:Lukas Haas

“There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.”

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Author:Martin Gore

“If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself it makes the sound more special.”

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Author:Tiesto

“I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.”

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Author:Justin Broadrick

“The first video I shot for "A Zip and a Double Cup"â€"I have two versions, a remix video and a the originalâ€"because I wasn’t really trying to do anything. I just came home and got kind of high and shot a video in the parking lot. I just shot the video how I wanted to do it and posted it online and the next day it went crazy.”

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Author:Juicy J

“I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].”

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Author:Paul Oakenfold

“When I remixed U2's "Even Better Than the Real Thing," that was a big moment and turning point for me. One of my remixes became "the big remix" for them and then I went on tour and was living on the road with them for six months.”

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Author:Paul Oakenfold

“This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.”

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Author:Tommy McCarthy

“I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn't respond.”

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Author:Afrojack

“I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.”

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Author:AraabMuzik

“In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.”

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Author:Joichi Ito

“My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.”

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Author:Squarepusher

“I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.”

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Author:Cedric Gervais

“When you do a remix, obviously you get a beautiful melody, you get the beautiful vocals - everything is already set up. You already have a base, which means all I gotta to do is create the music behind, 'cuz it's already beautiful.”

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Author:Cedric Gervais

“That's why I'm very wise [in] the way I choose the remixes 'cuz I know that the song has to transcend well. You already have a base, instead of me just doing my own production and I don't have to start from scratch.”

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Author:Cedric Gervais

“I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.”

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Author:Petra Collins

“I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.”

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Author:DJ Shadow

“I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.”

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Author:Matt Tong

“It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix.”

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Author:Simon Taylor-Davis

“I think the old school, back in the day, 10 to 15 years ago in music, is like you launch one single and you just let that ride out. Right now, you've got folks like Chris Brown, he just won't let up, he's got mixtape after mixtape, they're playing songs on the radio from the mixtape and then he's got songs on the album and videos and he's got remixes he's jumping on.”

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Author:Tyrese Gibson

“The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.”

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Author:Paul Morley

“I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“I'm interested in anyone cutting up music and doing remixes. I just don't think it would work in a live setting right now to do shows with a traditional DJ, but it's something that might happen eventually.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.”

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Author:Alexis Ohanian

“I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.”

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Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.”

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Author:Moby

“I've never been one for doing remixes. Then I've gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I'd rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“"I'm a new song and you're just a remix."”

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Author:Lil Wayne

“I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression.”

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Author:Deborah Cox

“My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.”

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Author:Deborah Cox

“Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass.”

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Author:Canibus

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

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Book:Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.”

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Author:Lev Manovich

“A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have a generation who go on YouTube and remake and remix music online all the time. They remake and upload songs and videos, and then other people remake the remakes; it just keeps going.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I'm online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD.”

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Author:Deborah Cox

“In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.”

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Author:Terrance Hayes

“My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.”

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Author:Big Boi

“I think remixes give songs more life.”

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Author:Big Boi

“Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.”

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Author:Peter Sunde

“Living For Love single and remixes available in UK soon! Sorry you have to wait! Its not my decision or my choice! Thanks for your patience! #‎ rebelheart #‎ livingforlove”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes.”

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Author:James Iha

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