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How Can Imitation Turn Into Legitimate Innovation?
Imitation is an incendiary thought that's called appropriation. There are countless examples of imitation turning into legitimate innovation. Having a romanticized vision of an artist, genre, or tradition may allow you to create something new because you see it from a different perspective than those closer to it. The Ramones were trying to be the bass city rollers; Johnny Ramone told me that himself.