[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

You are pretty naive as then as there's not much in music that hasn't been done before and the same goes with jokes. The music industry has always been ripe with plagiarism and it's increased twofold since the advent of digital music as today's pop music is largely based on artists stealing from others. I listen to a lot of metal music and it's hard to find an original guitar riff anymore and there's plenty of stuff in the genre that's recycled.

Isn't there a quote from Keith Richards floating around about how he lifted riffs or cord progression?

I can't recall the exact context of the quote but it was along the lines of nothing is new under the sun.