[gnarledmaw]

I recently saw them saying exactly that.

Michael Jackson approached them one day and apologized for lifting one of their songs as inspiration to use for Billie Jean(?).

Neither one of them could figure out what the connection was between their song and what Michael wound up with.

[plain talk]

“Neither one of them could figure out what the connection was between their song and what Michael wound up with.”

But to the composer there is a real tangible connection.

Then there is also the execution of the idea which often changes the sound, tempo, arrangement such that the original idea that seemed copied no longer sounds like it did at the beginning.