Q: how does oneself create music and it actually sounds good, without copying someone else's work?
A: start by doing things that are insanely different from other people's work. suspend good momentarily, just get different. if not working, go even more different, suspend good. i think you may find out that differentness can start to be a huge amount of fun, which becomes good very quickly. and the more comfortable you get in these different worlds, the goodness will start to fill in nicely and richly. it's kind of like throwing a boomerang. the only way you can feel it coming toward you is if you first throw it away