Robin Thicke Quotes

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

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.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

If you make modern rap music, how do you write without ripping off anyone else? It's just about having a distinct voice in your songs.

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

I've been thinking... Maybe you're a mockingbird... Mockingbirds imitate the songs of other birds... No, I've never heard of any copyright problems.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

If you're a good composer, you steal good steals.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's ripping you off," and I'm like "What do you mean?" Often I see the people that I've ripped off filtered into my own work. In other people's work, I can only see specific, tiny little instances of inflections stolen from another artist.

Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.

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

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

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