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Quotes About Covers

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.
~ Edith Wharton
The detail of my art depends entirely on the project itself. I tend to be a little more detail-oriented with covers than I am with interior pages, and I try to reduce the detail on action sequences as opposed to suspense passages.
~ Brian Stelfreeze
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 no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!
~ Ellie Goulding
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.
~ William Shakespeare
Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I rarely have any contact with the artists who cover my songs.
~ J. J. Cale
There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
~ Britt Daniel
There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.
~ Rick Astley
It's pretty crazy the amount of people that have covered my songs.
~ Glenn Danzig
Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.
~ Dimebag Darrell
I have always wanted to do a Christmas album and covers.
~ Jessica Sanchez
I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.
~ George Thorogood
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
~ Katey Sagal
Nobody considers a covers record an album.
~ Cat Power
I don't like glossy covers.
~ April Bloomfield
Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.
~ Megan Nicole
I'm not comfortable doing a covers album.
~ Brad Paisley
'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.
~ Ron Cephas Jones
I love doing covers.
~ Maria Brink
We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
~ M. Shadows
I actually have a kind of fantasy about doing a covers album in general. My music taste is so eclectic, that I think it would be cool to put it through the funnel of my arrangements.
~ Phoebe Bridgers
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, and I'm working on the '10s.
~ Sixto Rodriguez