Band Quote by Mitch Grassi

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

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly…

— Tori Amos

Often people will ask me why a song was chosen and I don't always have a good answer for it. You try ideas and…

— Liza Richardson

As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when…

— K. D. Lang

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

That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's…

— Jim Root

All the song choices that we've picked are unique in their own right. They're fun, and it's really just to engage our fans.

— Zacky Vengeance