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Mar-26-2011, 17:43 GMT
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 | From the Vanity Faire (?) Interview Speaking of indie, are you a Vampire Weekend fan? Have you ever met those guys?
I met them. They were playing on Saturday Night Live. My son (I guess he was 16 or 17 then) wanted to go. He was a fan. He wanted to go down to see them. So I thought, Yeah, I`ll go down to see them, too. I guess I`ll go and meet them, because everybody was saying that they were taking stuff from Graceland or whatever. I felt bad. I wanted to go and tell them that I didn`t think they were taking anything. So that`s what I told them. They said, `Do you think we are?â? and I said, `No, I think you`re going to the same sources that I went to. You`re drawing from the same well. You`re trying to write interesting songs.â? In a way, we were on the same pursuit, but I don`t think you`re lifting from me, and anyway, you`re welcome to it, because everybody`s lifting all the time. That`s the way music grows and is shaped.
Talent borrows, genius steals?
Exactly.
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