Robin Trower Quotes

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

And I don't want people to think that I make movies based on other films.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

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

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

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

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

No man was ever great by imitation.

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