Quotes About Emulation

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.

People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?

How can I be envious of where you are—when I've been there myself?

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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

A inveja é um cego que quer arrancar os olhos do outro.

El cazurro y el zoquete viven en un estado de perenne envidia.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I have always been a good mimic.

Human beings all mimic each other.

When I'm around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

If we cannot become what we want to become, we resort to another person—inevitably the person closest to us—and make of him what we have been unable to make of ourselves