Always Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

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

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each…

— John Mellencamp

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 like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was…

— Bryan Ferry

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

— Taylor Swift

I trained myself by doing other people's songs in clubs way back when. And so I have no pride about doing covers. I love…

— Ann Wilson

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the…

— Leonard Cohen

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always…

— Jimi Hendrix

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard…

— Robyn Hitchcock

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I wanted to…

— Sabrina Carpenter

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