Chuck Inglish Quotes

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

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

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

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

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

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

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

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

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

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'