I imagine this has been brought up before, but is it considered more of a gift to compose a new song than to interpret one that already exists? As a non-songwriter,I can only do those written by other people, but this seems lower on the merit ladder. On the other hand, there seems to be an awful lot of heard-this stuff, in the "original" market. On the third hand, some diferent-for-the-sake-of-difference pieces aren't accessible to me at all.Hmmm?