Remix Quotes

• I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• 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.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Song

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• 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.

  Joichi Ito

  Discovery, People, Waiting

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

  Austin Kleon

  Ideas, Mashups, New Ideas

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

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• 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.

  Lev Manovich

  Names, Design, Special

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• I think remixes give songs more life.

  Big Boi

  Song, Thinking, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tiesto

  People, Special, Want

  Interview with Sterling McGarvey, www.ign.com. August 10, 2006.

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

  Alexis Ohanian

  Giants, Phrases, Derivatives

  Source: www.fool.com

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

  Ann Wilson

  Creative, Sound, Way

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

  Big Boi

  Wife, Leftovers, Cooks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Moby

  Song, People, Video

  "Video exclusive: Moby's 'mistake' tells a tale of flotsam love" by Frank Rose, www.wired.com. September 14, 2009.

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

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Lying, Persons, Huge

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• 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.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Track, Wish

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• 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.

  AraabMuzik

  Song, Hip Hop, World

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Cedric Gervais

  Beautiful, Mean, Cuz

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• 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.

  Matt Tong

  Thinking, Fans, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Peter Sunde

  Crush, Technology, Abuse

  "Maintain. Hardline. Kopimi". blog.brokep.com. February 1, 2012.

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• 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.

  Carrie Underwood

  Country, Tonight, Matter

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• 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.

  Squarepusher

  Running, Moving, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Simon Taylor-Davis

  Thinking, Kind, Beats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Use, Ask Me

  Source: uproxx.com

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• 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

  Will Ferrell

  Song, President, Belief

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Artist, People

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• 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.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspiration, Thinking, Cds

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

  Meek Mill

  Gone, Records, No Love

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