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Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

Robin Trower
copying people thinking

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades
copying dancing sound
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just... by Sebastian Bach

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

Sebastian Bach
copying artist real
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won'... by Seth Godin

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Seth Godin
copying pay people

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Shia LaBeouf
copying creative ideas

Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.

Spencer Wells
copying mistake long

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

Stella Adler
copying play needs
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good... by Steve Guttenberg

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Steve Guttenberg
copying machines comedy

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?

Theodore Gericault
copying together years
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation by Thomas Gainsborough

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Thomas Gainsborough
copying imitation fool

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

Tite Kubo
copying facts son
Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery. by Tito Sotto

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Tito Sotto
copying flattery form

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Tracy Kidder
copying done writing

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

Vincent Van Gogh
copying foundation believe

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

Walter J. Phillips
copying quality common

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.

Walter J. Phillips
copying quality art

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.

Walter J. Phillips
copying increase interesting

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

Wayne Thiebaud
copying painting people
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adver... by Winston Churchill

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Winston Churchill
copying method ruins
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of t... by Yohji Yamamoto

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

Yohji Yamamoto
copying ends self
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