If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too. ' That can be tough to resist.
He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.