Lupe Fiasco Quotes

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.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

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.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

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.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

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

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

All art is theft.

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.