Cesaro Quotes

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

My style is too versatile to be compared to anybody.

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

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

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

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

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

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.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

My style is all to myself.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

For me, music and life are all about style.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.