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When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
The hardest thing for young footballers is that you start earning money and you can start copying other players.
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
Hey, Christian rock, if you want to be good, stop copying U2. U2 already did it. You know what I mean? There's a lot of U2-esque Christian rock.
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things.
People ask me 'Are you copying your dad?' It is in my blood. I have got royal blood coursing through my veins. I can't help myself doing what my father did.
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.
...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.
The pigeon dance came from a group from Rio de Janeiro who had a song in around 2012. A trend was started when I did the dance at home. Everyone started copying me.
When I entered normal school, it was hard for me to adjust sometimes. I was so unused to just sitting down in a classroom and copying off the board - simple things.
If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too
Glenn Hughes is one of the most naturally talented musicians, but he's still copying Steve Wonder to this day, so I can't call him a bona fide member of Deep Purple.
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.
I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.