Led Zeppelin did not steal 'Stairway' riff, jurors say

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36. "Good artists copy, great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso

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Great artists are inspired by art that has gone on before them, and then transcend those earlier works.

Led Zeppelin did not do covers of previous musicians work, they were inspired by riffs in songs and transformed them into new works of art imo. That is how art should evolve. Yes there is some resemblance in portions of LZ songs, to some of the songs they have been accused of ripping off. But I guess I look at it in the overview of their lifes work. Maybe its more about their 'sound' than anything else, the band as a whole. The magic of the right people coming together at the right time. Because it isn't about if a few notes line up here and there, its about the completed song, and the singer, the instrumentation all in sync. LZ created unique songs and will probably go down as the greatest rock n roll band of all time and deservedly so.