Amit Trivedi Quotes

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

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

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.

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

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

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

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

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

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

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 can't copy nature.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

The problem as you get older is, from my perspective, after a certain amount of songs, you tend to start writing something and then you stop and say, 'Wait, I think I've written that before.'