Music Reinterpretation Quotes

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

In the U.K. especially, dance music goes in cycles. It's often kids reappropriating sounds they loved when they were younger, but were too young to be a part of.

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.

Short-sighted music fans might scoff at the revivalism of, say, Ariel Pink, but plenty of acts have built healthy careers around the art of bringing back the past.

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

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.

Tribute bands have kind of taken over the market, and I don't want to come across as being that.

It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.

I love covers because there's just something I love about replicating someone else's music or taking rare music and introducing it to a wider or a new audience.

I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.

Remixed songs in a way are helping the legendary songs revive their charm and reach out to the newer generations.

It is a pleasure for me when 'Rise,' which many people loved, was covered by a famous group like IZ'ONE.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

You're never going to improve on a Michael Jackson song if you cover it.

We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

I think remixes give songs more life.

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.

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

I've always tried to stay away from doing remixes to songs that were popular, because too many people do that. But that's something the fans want to hear, me over those type of beats. So I do it for them.

Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.