Top Copying Quotes
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Charlie Watts
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
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.
Tracy Kidder
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.
Ruben Blades
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
Bill Frisell
Hugh Hopper 
Boris Pasternak 
David Boies 
Steve Guttenberg 
Tracy Kidder 
Ruben Blades 
Bill Frisell 
Theodore Gericault 
John Sebastian 
Charlie Watts 
Lawrence Lessig All Copying Quotes
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Suzanne Fields 
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
John Sebastian
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We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
Lawrence Lessig
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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
David Boies
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IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
Arthur Rock
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
Sebastian Bach
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We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
Kool Moe Dee
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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.
Boris Pasternak
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It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Steve Guttenberg
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