I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary.
If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.
People in the beauty community don't like copycats, so I think it's important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.
O imitators, you slavish herd!
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.
Record companies, they're just like lemmings.
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]
Most imitators attempt the inimitable.
So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
You can't duplicate me. A lot of fighters come out with a certain amount of style, and I like to see that, but they get smashed up a little bit.
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails.
I'm not really against a lot of things unless they are just pure exploitation and then they create their own copycat culture that comes from someone acting irresponsibly. That's dangerous when that happens.
How many fake Drakes are there? How many fake Migos are there?
If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.
When you see millions and billions of dollars being made in a genre, there are going to be copycats and people who jump in for the wrong reasons. Ten years ago, nobody was going to make dance music to try and get rich or even make a living. You couldn't! It was impossible.
The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
