Justin Chancellor Quotes

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

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

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.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

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

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.

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

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

No man was ever great by imitation.

To create something you must be something.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

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

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.