Didja see my email yesterday about how Chick Corea wrote the blockbuster jazz tune “Spain?”
Well here’s another great performer, John Cleese from Monty Python fame:
“I think if any young writer, someone who wants to become a writer or a performer, is listening then what I would say is, it is so difficult, the beginning, especially as a writer to do good written comedy, that I suggest at the start that you steal or borrow, or as the artists would say ‘are influenced by’ anything you think that is really good and really funny and appeals to you.
“And if you study that and try to reproduce it in some way then it’ll have your own stamp on it. But you have a chance of getting off the ground with something like that.
“But if you sit down one day, never having written before, with a pencil – or a computer but I write with a pencil – and you say ‘I’m going to write something completely new and original and very funny’ you can’t do it. It’s like trying to fly a plane without having any lessons, you know?
“You’ve got to start somewhere and the best way to start is by copying something that is really good.
“But people seem to think I was advocating stealing in general. No, once you’ve gotten off the ground you’ll develop your own style and you don’t need to steal.”
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See ya at the round table!
All the best,
Doberman Dan
P.S. Notice that John Cleese didn’t say to start by copying. He said…
“…and the best way to start is by copying something that is really good.”
The key words being “really good.”
The pieces in the knights-only swipe file (and I add to it regularly) definitely qualify as REALLY GOOD.
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Pax vobiscum.
