| 1 | ->''"I have sung this song for a long time. I first heard it as a raucous sea shanty and years later I changed it into a girly love song. I have been in bother for doing this, but as a wise man once said "an unchanging tradition is a dying one". This is the reason that there are so many versions of all the old songs; each time they were passed on they were changed slightly, why stop now?"'' |
| 2 | -->-- '''Kate Rusby''', regarding "The Wild Goose", ''10'' liner notes |
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| 4 | ->''"I thought this song was about a baby."'' |
| 5 | -->--'''Mercedes Jones''', regarding the ''Series/{{Glee}}'' cover of "Isn't She Lovely." |
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| 7 | ->"When Prudence sings "I Want to Hold Your Hand," for example, I realized how wrong I was to ever think that was a happy song. It's not happy if it's a hand you are never, never, never going to hold." |
| 8 | -->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''', ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse2007'' review |
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| 10 | ->''"Oh, I know ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. And what he might say with irony, [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare I say]] [[SincerityMode with conviction]]: 'What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god!'"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Jean-Luc Picard''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Hide and Q" |
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| 13 | ->"The cover is like a drag act, a way of inhabiting another persona or body or voice, and it is a way of doing so while self-consciously registering the performance rather than merely blending into the original. When Music/RufusWainwright performs a version of "Chelsea Hotel #2" by Music/LeonardCohen, for example, the song, famous for its unsentimental account of a tryst between Cohen and Janis Joplin, becomes instead a queer elegy to another anonymous gay encounter. And when Music/PattiSmith performed another Leonard Cohen song, "Gloria," on her classic 1975 release, ''Horses,'' she turned the song easily into a lesbian punk anthem, despite the fact that she admits easily to being heterosexual in her orientation. The lesbian pose in this instance is itself a cover version--she covers a song that also causes her to cover a different identity position, and in the process she creates what she calls "positive anarchy." In both of these cases the original song really gets replaced by the cover version, which makes it irredeemably queer." |
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