I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.
I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.
I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style.
As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying
to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.
Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
I don't try and copy anyone in T20 cricket. My cricketing shots are inside out, behind the bowler, and other shots I have developed.