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RE: Understanding Vaporwave: Lesser Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal
The part of your title for this post
Lesser Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal
reminds me of something John Lennon once said in an interview.
The interviewer asked him if The Beatles borrowed musical influences from early American Rock and Roll artist and John said:
We don't borrow it, we steal it. Borrowing implies it doesn't belong to us and we have to give it back, stealing means it now belongs to us, Besides, there's only 12 notes, it's not like we invented them.
Well in a way, music is usually shared, hence giving it back (to the collective) :)