You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Jackson BrowneLike, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson BrowneWhen I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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