Music Cover Quotes

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

Dave Guy, the trumpet player, is an incredible musician. He came into the studio one day, and they had just cut a cover of "Sign, Seal, Deliver" for something with Sharon Jones, and I just was blown away by how they got that sonic. I mean, it was just so much the real deal.

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

I've actually done a cover of 'Train in Vain' by The Clash with Viv Albertine - which was originally written about her.

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

It's always flattering when someone covers a song. I mean, when you're a young band, and you're unsigned - to think that someday people would want to cover one of your songs - it's just mind-blowing.

The Backstreet Boys posted a cover of our single 'Good Grief.' It was so cool, and they reached out to us, saying, 'When you're in town, come to the show.'

I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

One of my favorite album covers is Miguel's 'Wildheart.'

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

I've seen that so many people have made and uploaded videos with my song, 'Bubble Pop.' I was inspired because many of them were even better than me.

We do a cover of Charlie Puth's 'Attention' that I really, really love and I think really grooves.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I must have listened to at least 10 covers of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' - Jeff Buckley's cover is usually my go-to song.

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

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around the world, but I did like Metallica's, because I kind of related to Metallica when they first came out, because Jimmy Hetfield really reminded me of me in 1965, you know?

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