Live Quote by Johnny Christ

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

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 I put out a record I don't really like to do covers as much, but I don't mind playing them. I do them…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I…

— Andy Grammer

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

We got our start doing covers and I think, and hearing other people covering our songs is super flattering.

— Chrissy Costanza

I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new…

— Greg Laswell

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go…

— Joe Walsh

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

— Vidya Vox

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

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

— Fantastic Negrito

The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it…

— Henry Rollins