Dinah Jane Quotes

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

No man was ever great by imitation.

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

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

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

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

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

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

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

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

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

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.

A lot of bands are influenced by other bands, and that informs their songwriting for sure. It definitely informs my songwriting, too. But it's more about not thinking about it, and if it comes out of you, it's better.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Everything I do is me. I don't like taking ideas from people unless they're the G.O.A.T.

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

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