Taylor Fritz Quotes

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that influence you - in my case Johnny Cash, Bowie, John Lydon.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

All art is theft.

I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.

I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and end up imitating them rather than finding their own identity.

I've seen a lot of people stealing from what I do. Some people show love and say thank you and tell me how I was an inspired for them.

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.