Inimitability Quotes

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

I can't be compared to anybody else.

Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

There was no saying I could ever step in and do what John does, because it'd be really hard to be John Williams.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.