I think the way that you develop your own sound is you go through a process by which you imitate people sometimes very closely. With me, I would mimi… - Eric Johnson

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I think the way that you develop your own sound is you go through a process by which you imitate people sometimes very closely. With me, I would mimic people to the note. And then I think you form a collage of all these different players that you imitate, that you learn, and you form your own recipe. I think anybody that has an originality to them, it came from a pool of taking stuff from their predecessors.