Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. — Sailor Jerry Copy Share Image
I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“You are an original masterpiece; imitating someone else diminishes your value.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
They say you're weird, let them at least you show them the best version of being yourself and not imitating others just… — Shennon Fabiano Copy Share Image
I do think that Hillary Clinton risks looking like she's imitating Elizabeth Warren when she starts doing it. She'll look like Elizabeth… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff. — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end.… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published… You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him. — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
![“The house as I say ... smelled of brisket and bourbon, so you could hear that. I started imitating them. Phrases came out of that, "Can't you dig that?" "I knew that you would." We were at [Passover] Seders and they were confused with the bitter herbs, "Do we smoke these or do we do we dip them in…” quote by Billy Crystal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bdc/billy-crystal-6588_bitter_the-house-as-i-say-smelled-of-brisket-an_1060298.jpg)
