Roisin Murphy Quotes

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

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

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

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

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

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

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

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

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

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.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.