Words matter. These are the best Remix Quotes from famous people such as Mitch Hedberg, Kelsea Ballerini, Afrojack, Tulsi Kumar, Karol G, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
When Florida Georgia Line and Nelly put out the ‘Cruise’ remix, it brought so many more people to country music.
I actually did a remix for Katy Perry, and her management didn’t respond.
A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics added to it. A new composition is introduced within the existing one and I feel that’s tougher to do.
When ‘Ahora Me Llama’ was out, I was looking for someone to do the remix. Among those people I was looking at was Anuel, who was in jail. We tried, but it was impossible to record it because of his situation.
The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I’ve had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.
The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
‘Meow The Jewels’ was a nightmare of a promise I had to fulfill. We made a joke that if the fans gave us $40,000, we would remix our album using nothing but cat sounds.
I’ve remixed lots of other people’s songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, ‘Why don’t you give ‘Ibiza’ to someone to remix?’ I said, ‘Sure,’ because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it.
The Nike joint ‘Classic’ with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix – Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a double-time tempo; mine was a regular boom-bap tempo, and they liked it so much that we ended up doing the video to it.
When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don’t have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.
Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of ‘Mi Gente,’ too.
I would be on top of the world if ‘Remix’ comes back. I wasn’t playing a central character in it but it was my first show. It brought me to Mumbai and will always be special.
My whole thing, to keep myself interested – and, you know, I’m a huge hip-hop head – I have tons and tons of a cappellas. So I do these live remix mash-ups with my tracks and just throw them in there.
Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it’s irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
I’m not gone remix a record I don’t got no love for.
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I’m writing my own album, I don’t have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
I love a good remix! Moto Blanco did a great one of ‘I Hope’.
‘It Still Moves’ is really the only record in our catalog that I’ve always felt I wanted to remix. Part of the fun of that record was that we recorded it all to tape, and it was all super-duper organic.
When I came to Mumbai, I was just 19 years old and did the TV show, ‘Remix’. Thereafter, I just fell in love with acting.
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.
‘Despacito’ is phenomenal; you can’t really chase that type of success. I’m a huge fan of the record, the original, and then when the remix came out, I said, ‘Oh my God, it just got greater!’
Basically, a lot of people have asked to jump on ‘Shutdown’ remix, I’m not gonna front. But ’cause of quality control, we wanted to make it really big: it’s all about spreading the British sound and culture.
I got introduced to Maps by my label, and I liked his sound. I had been living with the original version of ‘Younger’ for quite a long time when I heard the result of his remix, and I loved it. It actually made me find a new love for the track.
I would love to do a collaboration with Lil’ Wayne. I would have loved to sing on his song, ‘How To Love.’ I wanted to do the remix to that song really bad.
I do not do a remix without crediting the original makers. For me, that is what is most important.
They’ve got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they’ll say, ‘Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.’
With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.
My wife cooks. I can’t cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.
Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn’t matter to me if it’s a remix or an original production. I don’t think about it as, ‘Well, I have to spend three hours on a remix or I have to do something all original.’
I actually admire the Indian artiste ‘Lost Stories.’ He made a remix of my song ‘Faded.’ That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique.
If I just remix and release, no one will listen. I am adapting, changing the song and merging a new song into an old one.
