#covers

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#am #artist #be true #business #businessman

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#covers #ends #equivalent #good #habitual

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#bass #bedroom #brother #bunch #come

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. ↗

— James Laughlin

#because #book #cases #close #close relationship

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#covers #lot #model #multifaceted #took

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#conclusion #discovers #does #draws #experience

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#careers #control #covers #else #everyone

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#found #friends #his #home #man

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bait #covers #hook #hope #such

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. ↗

— Jon Secada

#covers #during #earth #fire #i