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I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

— Miranda Lambert

I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.

— Chris Stapleton

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

— Scout Niblett

My idea of covers is that you should never cover a song and do it exactly like the artist because everyone's always going to…

— Glenn Danzig

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

— Nick Lowe

I feel like a lot of bands have done amazing covers, but whenever we start working on it, whenever we try it in rehearsal,…

— St. Lucia

In terms of covers, it's always nice to do ones that aren't actually getting played by the original artist anymore. I just love the…

— Scott Hutchison

Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite…

— Ellie Goulding

I've never understood why someone does a cover of a song just exactly the same. If you do something, do it a little different…

— Cameron Britton

As an artist, it is heartwarming to see other artists appreciate your work by making covers and renditions of your original track.

— Momina Mustehsan

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I think if you're going to cover a song, you should definitely take it apart and put it back together as if you wrote…

— Melanie Martinez