James, you still don't get it, do you?   It takes a lot of study to "copy" or even be "heavily influenced"--and quite a bit of practice. This is the necessary work of learning to play.

I suggest, based on some of the comments here about what you think sounds alike, , that perhaps you don't understand what you are hearing as well as you think--and I suspect that the "originality" that you value is not quite as original as you think--

No matter what the source, the performance ultimately belongs to the performer--