#copy

If you copy then it is not self-expression. ↗

— Michael Schenker

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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. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. ↗

— Michael Schenker

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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#entire #every #excel #flight #hidden

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#anyone #bill #bill clinton #blair #chancellor

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. ↗

— John Sebastian

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Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb. ↗

— Brian Setzer

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I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#authors #bad #benefits #better #copyright