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1->''[[Music/NineInchNails NIN]] closed the night with a slow and smoky cover of Music/JohnnyCash's "Hurt," which earned nonstop cheers from the crowd.''
2--> -- '''[[http://blink.htcsense.com/web/articleweb.aspx?regionid=45&articleid=12583156 Associated Press]] [[OlderThanTheyThink review]]'''
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4->''I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a [[Music/JohnnyCash music legend]] from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning – different, but every bit as pure.''
5--> -- '''[[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]]''' himself on Johnny Cash's legendary cover of "Hurt"
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7-> ''I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Music/EllaFitzgerald sing them.''
8--> -- '''[[Music/GeorgeGershwin Ira Gershwin]]'''
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10-> ''A hundred covers of this song, nobody sings it like [[Music/WillieNelson him]], not even [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]]''.
11--> -- '''Will [=McAvoy=]''', ''Series/TheNewsroom'' (the song in question is "Always on My Mind," originally published in 1969, with Presley's version in 1972, and Nelson's in 1982)
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13-> ''That was always [[Music/JimiHendrix Jimi]]'s song. I just happened to write it.''
14-->--'''Music/BobDylan''' on "All Along the Watchtower"
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16->''"But what most people remember nowadays about that album is that it has the original version of '1985.' Yeah, you know this song. The version ''you'' know is by Music/BowlingForSoup."''
17--> -- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on SR-71's album "Here We Go Again"

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