There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.