Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I'm hard to imitate because I'm not gifted enough.

Don't do anyone else's version of a hit song - it's gonna sound terrible. You just have to do what you do well and crank it up to 11.

Nobody can do a Govinda as well as Govinda can.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because it's just so genuine. It's just us.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

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

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

Most imitators attempt the inimitable.

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.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity.

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.