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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.

— Lukas Haas

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✓Similar Perspectives

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

— Jam Master Jay

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.'

— Tiesto

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

— Marina and the Diamonds

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.

— Mike Posner

I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.

— Joanna Newsom

I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.

— Kygo

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

— John Fahey

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

— Ziggy Marley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

— Trent Reznor

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

— Tiesto