Jeff Beck Quotes

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

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

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, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

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