M. Shadows Quotes

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. 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.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

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

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

There's some songs you can cover, and I've covered and butchered a few, but you can't do them all.

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

There haven't been many examples of times when we've done a cover and not put it out in some form.

Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

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

I've always covered some Dylan songs. I do one or two. And I do them because they're great songs. You know some people cover songs they wish they could have written, not me. I like to cover songs I know I could not have ever written.