Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
Sebastian Bach
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
Ellsworth Kelly
You can't make experimental work by copying past work.
Trey Parker
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
John Sebastian