Time & hindsight

What is the best advice you have ever received?

38 answers answered between 1976 and 2026 one of 5 in 73 Questions

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer of musical theatre
Harold Prince went to see it and he wrote me a letter saying don’t be discouraged about this because actually there’s some quite good songs in here. But he also said something which stayed with me all my life, which is that you can’t listen to a musical if you can’t look at it, by which he was actually saying that the designs for Jeeves were absolutely hideous.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 13 September 2019 source ↗
Joan Baez Folk singer, songwriter and activist
The best advice I got from a painter friend of mine when I said, “If you had one thing to say to an aspiring artist like myself, what would you say?” And she said, “Make as many mistakes as you can.”
Recorded Krista Tippett, On Being, 26 November 2024 source ↗

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