Compromise Quote by Marcello Giordani

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

— John Hawkes

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal…

— Curtis Jackson

I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.

— Chloe Kohanski

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

— Patti LaBelle

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal…

— Michael Buble

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

— Bill Monroe

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

— Boz Scaggs

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

— Bebe Rexha

There's this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music: "It's…

— Alan Palomo

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

— Garth Brooks

When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what…

— Rodney Crowell

I've tried to maintain a certain bit of originality in that I don't want to necessarily sing like a soulful gospel singer or like…

— Nadia Ali