"There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move."
"Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound."
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Source: Daniel Smith (2013). “Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
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