That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
“The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.”
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”