I’m currently in the process of writing a song. I’ve got a tune and I’m putting the lyrics together but I’m always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I’ve heard somewhere randomly that I don’t remember hearing.

Do I just have a shitty memory or is this a problem that other people have too?

  • NaibofTabrEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

    All art is derivative. You can extrapolate from your experiences but you cannot extrapolate from no experience. Everything that you could possibly produce must fall within the context of human culture.

    Also a very old lament, stolen forth from holy writ:

    All things are wearisome, more than one can say.

    The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

    What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.