Quotes About Expression

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

I can't copy nature.

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

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

That's the way I always listened to music. I'd listen and copy it. I play by ear so that's easier than reading.

There are a lot of players when I watch them playing I say, 'Amazing, I want to do like them.' But not to be like them - just some parts to copy. But always be myself and always play my own style.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.

Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.

The core of me is country. It's what I love. It's what I write. Even when I sing pop stuff, I'm still singing it 'countrily.'