Big Quote by Gord Downie

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

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

There are a couple different factors that play into the decision of which songs to cover. It could either be we're really inspired by…

— Mitch Grassi

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

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands…

— Jason Mantzoukas

We want to do songs that people don't normally hear in cover bands.

— Tom Sandoval

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our…

— M. Shadows

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would…

— Robert Cray

I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's…

— Sixto Rodriguez

I think perhaps people don't dig deep enough when they're looking for covers, so you get the same things covered over and over again…

— Tracey Thorn

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

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