“For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.”
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.