A young man came up to Mozart and said, ‘I want to compose symphonies. I want to talk to you about that.’
Mozart said, ‘How old are you?’
‘Twenty-two.’
And Mozart said, ‘You’re too young to do symphonies.’
And the guy says, ‘But you were writing symphonies when you were ten years old.’
He says, ‘Yes, but I wasn’t running around asking other people how to do it.’”