"After two takes you're imitating yourself." — Thelonious Monk

More Imitating Quotes

This quote is filed under Imitating Quotes, one of 104 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
• The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. — Theodor Adorno
• Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But… — Bjork
• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express… — Constantin Brancusi
• Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes… — Norma Kamali
• Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your… — P.J. O'Rourke
• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying… — Florence Nightingale
• What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you. — Jimmy Connors
• My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as… — Nicholas Delbanco
• I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens… — Andy Wilkinson
• Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating… — Unknown Author
• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew,… — Lana Parrilla

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