The Cover Changes the Meaning/Quotes

""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?""

- Kate Rusby, regarding "The Wild Goose", 10 liner notes

""I thought this song was about a baby.""

- Mercedes Jones, regarding the Glee cover of "Isn't She Lovely."

""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.""

- Roger Ebert, Across the Universe review