Deborah Cox Quotes

• Where every moment is about truth and I think it’s a great challenge every night. That’s what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it’s great.

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• When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

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• We’ve never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she’s an icon and she’s been one of my main mentors in this business.

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• 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.

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• The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.

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• The second song is called ‘Easy As Life,’ which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

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• 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.

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• The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins’ record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

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• The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I’m performing at The Palace Theatre.

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• So I did ‘Something Happened on the Way to Heaven’ and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.

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• Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I’m in their presence.

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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.

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• People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

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• It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

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• I’ve done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it’s always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

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• I’ve always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I’m not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

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• I’m at a point where I’m going where the journey leads me. I’ve set goals but I don’t get really hung up if I don’t achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?

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• I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they’re doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

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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.

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• I think it’s his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

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Deborah Cox (32)

Birth:	13th July, 1974
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Singer

About

Deborah Cox was born in Toronto, Canada. She is a Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, a record held for nearly eight years. After middling success, Cox released a non-album single for the soundtrack to the 1997 movie Money Talks, titled "Things Just Ain't The Same". A dance mix of the song with a remix by Hex Hector topped the U.S. dance charts and was included on her second album, 1998's One Wish. Cox's third album The Morning After was released in November 2002 on J Records. She provided vocals for the 2015 Whitney Houston biopic, Whitney, directed by Angela Basset.

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