Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.

Mimicking people was something I did already.

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I'm a good mimic.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

I have always been a good mimic.

When I'm around someone for about five minutes, I can usually mimic their voice.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

My brother told me that I used to clown around with voices as a kid.

I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.