Jody,

Thanks for elaborating on my 'stealing' line:-)

Someone once asked Woody Guthrie how he felt about 'someone' (not Dylan) who was singing & stealing his songs & melodies...And Woody said: "Hell, he just steals from me. I steal from everybody."

And Pete Seeger, Woody's Pal, 'borrowed' from the book of Ecclesiasticus to write a song we know as 'Turn turn turn'.......

'There is nothing new under the sun',,,,But as Artists, the trick, I think, is to put our own 'spin' on ageless themes & stories.

Midnite

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Whitesides:

As far as stealing from the best. Yes, it's true it's a good idea to steal from the best. HOWEVER - I recommend not stealing everything from the same source. Steal from a bunch of different great places. Or rather a better term would be borrow. That's how you become original.

Jody

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