If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.
I remember Glenn Miller coming to me once, before he had his own band, saying, How do you do it? How do you get started? It's so difficult. I told him, I don't know but whatever you do don't stop. Just keep on going.
It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.