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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.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

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.

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

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.