Dave Davies Quotes

Parody is homage gone sour.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.

You can parody almost anything.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

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

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

Is not parody the eternal lot of man?

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, 'Who are these people who do this... ?' Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.

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

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

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

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

I've seen many imitations on 'Gag Concert' and other programs, too, and I've been watching happily.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.