Pink Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.

It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.