An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.