Given Quote by John Hockenberry Download Open image “The song is just the given. It's how you cover it that matters.” — John Hockenberry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Inspirational Matter Song
If the song makes it and people like it, then I guess that's all that matters, really. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If it's the right song for me, I'll get on that song. It's not about the individual. It's about the music. — Nav Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
I think every journalist understands when they are the beneficiary of hot information that, yes, they have a scoop, but they're also being used.… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news. — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
“The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While… — John Hockenberry Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image