Ricky Reed Quotes

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

You want to stake your own claim. You don't want to be called a copycat.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

If you try to sound like somebody else, it will never work because we already have that person. You are noticed when you try to be an original sound.

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.