Absurd Quote by Eddie Trunk

But I think what makes a band great is that you're not trying to be someone else ever. At no point do you want…

— Derek Trucks

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

Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.

— Alice Cooper

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were…

— M. Shadows

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy…

— Bryce Dessner

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

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s,…

— Sixto Rodriguez

The thing about a band is, it's not so much how good the musicians are - it's the blend of personalities and characters. It's…

— Ian Gillan

The only criterion we used in doing cover material was we wanted to do songs that we wished bands would play when we went…

— Gord Downie

People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.

— M. Shadows

Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded…

— Paul Shaffer