Its better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.- Herman Melville
Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.-Polly Bergen
I believe that love - not imitation - is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. -Marily Vos Savant
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -Jimi Hendrix.
No man was ever great by imitation. Samuel Johnson.