Quotes About Inspiration

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I can't copy nature.

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

I really like Ronaldinho. He is the player I have watched the most and tried to copy the most, but I am still learning.

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.

There are a lot of players when I watch them playing I say, 'Amazing, I want to do like them.' But not to be like them - just some parts to copy. But always be myself and always play my own style.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

I was an avid collector of Elvis' early stuff; for a young singer, he was an absolute inspiration. I soaked up what he did like blotting paper. It's the same as being in school - you learn by copying the maestro.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.