Bob Quote by Bryan Ferry

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover…

— Sixto Rodriguez

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

— Katey Sagal

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal,…

— Shawn Colvin

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a…

— Petra Haden

I tend to get quite close to the songs because I've always been the main songwriter.

— Roland Orzabal

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

— Paul Taylor

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five…

— Bruce Cockburn

I gave myself a year to write as many songs as I could, and then I made a shortlist of about 10, and on…

— G Flip

I had had eight hits on the Top 20 chart before 'Raindrops,' but they were soon forgotten and so was I. Before that song,…

— B. J. Thomas

I was a songwriter and I've written some good songs, but there are lots of greater songs that I know I have inside yet…

— Jimmy Cliff

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm…

— Peter Blegvad

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his…

— Chris Cornell