Ann Wilson Quotes

I love having other people sing my songs.

For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

I get a lot of joy out of covering other people's songs, and, at my best, I think I bring something a little new to a lot of them.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

Although I'm a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don't think I'd cover one of his songs, simply because there's just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

The one thing that concerts have done for me is given me the opportunity to get back to sort of do songs that I want to do. It's about enjoying yourself.

I think of myself as an interpretative singer and a songwriter.

My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, 'I don't have anything to write, but I like music.' So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

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

You don't necessarily have to write a song to make it your own. After all, Elvis never wrote a song in his life.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

Like many musicians, it's my roots in music, playing cover songs. I've done probably a lot more covers than the average person who does what I do, but I'm very proud of it, and I do feel like I really bring a lot artistically to these covers.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.