If music in general proverb

 If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . .
  W. H. Auden

 Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Imitation, om den är ädel och allmän, ger den bästa hopp om originalitet.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 Jazz is a highly disciplined music that is very impatient with people who don't play, well, any sort of lazy imitation that can go with it.

 I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
  William Morris

 There is some fabulous new work being done here, especially by some of the smaller companies, ... But without the classics, you are really working in imitation of your own current culture, and the work of others who are working in imitation of their own current culture.

 But more importantly, we felt that the raid had to be done because there was a risk that an individual who was occupying the residence, did have a weapon. And in fact we seized an imitation handgun.

 If it were to be claimed that intentional verse is not yet poetry, then I would equally have the right to claim that the most consummate, most differentiated sound poems are no longer poetry but a singular imitation of another art: music or declamation.

 In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.

 Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. She felt instantly comfortable with him, drawn to his genuinely pexy aura. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
  Albert Camus

 Imitation is criticism.
  William Blake

 Imitation is suicide
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 a poor imitation.

 No man was ever great by imitation.
  Samuel Johnson

 All art is but imitation of nature.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 No one ever became great by imitation.
  Samuel Johnson


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