Creativity Quote by Deborah Cox

Deborah Cox is making a case for range as a kind of respect: respect for the song, for the audience, and for the way different people enter music through different doors. On the surface, she’s defending remixes. Underneath, she’s pushing back against a gatekeeping instinct that treats certain formats (the “original,” the “serious” version) as more authentic than the club mix that actually keeps a record alive in public.

The phrase “reaching everybody on every different plane” isn’t just big-tent optimism; it’s an artist talking like a working musician who has lived inside multiple listening economies. Cox came up in an era when R&B singers weren’t only competing on radio, they were being tested in dance clubs, on remix EPs, and later in playlist culture where a track’s afterlife depends on adaptability. A dance remix isn’t dilution here; it’s translation. A classical version isn’t pretension; it’s another dialect of the same emotional sentence.

What makes the quote land is how casually she collapses hierarchy. “That’s great… that’ll be great too.” No defensive posture, no preciousness. Just the quiet confidence that the core stays intact even as the arrangement changes. The subtext is pragmatic and slightly political: art doesn’t have to choose between purity and popularity. It can circulate, shapeshift, and still mean what it means.

By ending on “expression,” Cox frames genre not as a box but as a toolkit. The intent is permission-giving: to herself, to collaborators, and to listeners who want their version to count.