James Blake Quotes

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

I certainly wouldn't want to be a Mini Me of any of the people whose footsteps I've followed in.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

As a kid I used to wear my mother's dupattas and saris and emulate Hema Maliniji or Rekhaji in front of the mirror.

I am not really trying to act like my dad.

As much as we don't like to admit it sometimes, we are the influencers.

I think growing up, people want to put you in a box and label you quite often, just because it's kind of easier, I guess.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.