Is imitation a valuable approach or should an artist strive to be original? We just combine things in a new way. A and my favourite example is tom waites. To him, it was not, wo, amazing original. It's he knows exactly what he's doing. And so i think even the most quorunquote, original or sophisticated and complex musicians know exactly what ingredients they're combining. I've taken the melody from here and the harmony from there, combined those two things. Like that dude would do finger exercises hours a day. He knew exactly what he was doing on his instrument. That is the weirdest, strangest, most unique sounds i hav ever heard in